An earth type I civilization makes use of roughly 25 megatons of TNT equivalent a second. Sol type II civilization consumes 2 billion times more energy. A civilization that controls thousands (type I) ...

At this point, as you move to a Type 0.2 civilization and beyond, you figure out how to manipulate fire and use it to your advantage (like making roasted proto-lion).

Our civilization is fast approaching a tipping ... Type 1 can harness all of the energy of its home planet; Type 2 can harvest all of the power of its sun; and Type 3 can master the energy from ...

Exponential advancement on a cosmological timescale implies frighteningly vast differences between between civilizations born at different times, and Kardeshev captures that. Type 2 ...

A type 2 civilization would only need to go a hundred light years to have many stars under their control and many dozens would be red giants or manipulatable into Red Giants. Within 100,000 light ...

Type 2 or “stellar” civilization: can obtain and store all the energy its parent star releases, probably through things like Dyson spheres. Power consumption is ten orders of magnitude more ...

Type 2 or “stellar” civilization: can obtain and store all the energy its parent star releases, probably through things like Dyson spheres. Power consumption is ten orders of magnitude more ...