Well, duh. Assuming human population doesn't die/migrate in exponential fashion in the mean time, we'll be producing more electricity by fusion than we receive in solar radiation by 2600 or so.
"Duh" just because, exponents tend to do that.
Presumably, people will have realized that by then, and moved to other planets, installed sun shades at L1, built The Matrix to pacify humanity, etc. And assuming fusion (of any kind, presumably the real, high temperature stuff, not the pseudosciency kind) takes off, which really has no physical reason not to, in this century.
And yes, by the way, there's more than enough deuterium in the oceans to seriously affect Earth's climate by brute force alone. Let alone hydrogen, which we should be able to fuse long before then as well.
(Regarding mitigation: note, by the way, my supposition about exponential decline of population. History has so far shown that power consumption per capita is rising as well as population, so it will presumably take more than just stabilizing population, but a seriously declining (and ever more powerful) population to stabilize power consumption.)
Since that's unsustainable, I suppose I would predict somewhere between today and 2600, we will reach peak humans, and then a little later, peak fusion. After that, further growth either has to be inward (Matrix?) or outward (space colonies).
Probably both, as the adventerous will "evaporate" from the planet, cooling it to a self-interested husk of a society behind... much like those Borg-assimilated planets in Star Trek, only with more trolling and Anonymous and cat pictures, and less militant assimilation. ;-)
Tim
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> I posted a link to an article about how LENR may or may not be accepted
> on another site.
> I got a response back something like, while it is an improvement over
> hydrocarbons, it will release environmentally dangerous heat.
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> Have you ever heard anything about environmentally dangerous heat?
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> how does the heat we produce, Power plants, cars, etc, compare to that
> generated within the core of the earth and by the sunlight hitting the
> earth?
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> Mikek
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> Reading for those that think LENR could be possible.
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> You may find the possible politics of using a new technology interesting.
> > http://fcnp.com/2015/11/10/the-peak-oil-crisis-the-next-keystone-debate/
> And the solution;
> "Fortunately, however, the leadership of Industrial Heat, which at least
> for the minute seems to be the company that could be the first to offer
> this technology for sale, has a stratagem to circumvent to what will
> surely become widespread opposition to the technology. Industrial Heat
> simply took the technology to China where PR firms, lobbyists, congressmen
> and TV commercials have zero impact on decision makers. Moreover, China,
> where people are dying from their own coal smoke, is desperately in need
> of a clean source of energy ASAP."
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