I received a useful comment on my post from A Flash in The Cosmic Pan from Serban Tanasa asking if nuclear fusion would dramatically alter the calculation I made there. The gist of the post was that the sizes of interstellar civilisations are ultimately limited by the fact exponential growth in energy demand outruns cubic growth in stellar energy availa…
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