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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
What can you do with a GW-h? A human being possesses an average energy content of around 750 MW-h, so the energy content of a human being would be worth $75. Even at a 10% efficiency, you could make a human body out of raw elements for $750. One of the central elements of Eclipse Phase is the lack of resources to make physical bodies for digital entities, an element that could not realistically exist if energy was worth only $100 per GW-h of electricity.
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This is a bizarre economic model. I don't know what 'energy content of a human being' means, but there's no possible meaning that would make that a sensible approach to cost estimation.
Manufacturing capacity, not raw energy or common matter, is probably the actual limitation.