Last time, we talked about the Kardashev  Scale and looked at type 0 civilizations.  

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Today, we are going to discuss what  a type 1 civilization would be like.

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According to the Kardashev scale, a type 1  civilization would have mastered all the energy  

available to its home planet including energy  that reaches the planet from its home star.

It is for this reason, we sometimes refer  to this type of civilization as a planetary  

civilization. In terms of its energy use, a type  one civilization can consume around 10^17 watts.

This would be possible since  it extracts its energy and raw  

materials from fusion power rather than fission.

It also utilizes a vast pool of hydrogen  available in its oceans as well as other  

renewable energy resources such as  solar, hydro, thermal, and wind.

So it's not far-fetched to think that  individuals living in this type of society  

probably won't have to worry  about their electric bills  

simply because of the total efficiency at  which a type 1 civilization would harness it.

Now, being able to harness all of its planet's  

energy would also mean that it would  have control over all natural forces.

According to Physicist Michio Kaku, a planetary  civilization should be able to control things such  

as the weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes.  Furthermore, it would even influence global  

flora and fauna, change the geological  makeup of its planet, and a lot more.

But perhaps a very cool  feature of this civilization  

would be its ability to build  cities on top of its oceans.

Just imagine how cool it could  be to live in a city like that!

So when will humanity be able to live on  ocean cities and control the entire earth?  

Well, first, we would need to  boost our current energy production  

over 100,000 to 1,000,000 times  more than what we have now.

This means fossil fuels and other nonrenewable  resources that we heavily rely on have got to go.  

So, it will most likely take another 100-200  or so years for us to reach type one status.

This is of course, according to some  calculations based on our current progression.  

As of now, we are about 0.75 on the  Kardashev Scale according to most experts.

So it is very likely that  we should reach type 1 soon.

In fact, Nikolai Kardashev himself  described Type 1 civilization as  

having “technological level close to the  level presently attained on the Earth”.  

But Ofcourse, this is all based on whether  humanity will be able to survive without any  

natural disasters or nuclear wars that could  completely destroy us all in the near future.

Now, a type 1 civilization's level of advancements  might be hard to believe but compared to the  

advances beyond a type 1 civilization, these  are just basic and primitive levels of control.  

As a type 1 civilization  advances to type 1.1 and beyond,

it will be able to start space travel  within its solar system to nearby planets.

It would also be able to colonize  the moons of its home planet.

Perhaps even begin to terraform some  of the planets in its solar system.

Apart from this, as a type 1  civilization gets more advanced,  

it may even be able to manipulate its  genetic makeup and cure most diseases.  

And at a certain level of advancement, a type  1 will begin to set its eyes on its home star  

and start to come up with a plan  to extract all of its energy.

It is at this stage it would have begun  its transition to a type 2 civilization.  

But that's a topic for another time!

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