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Elon Musk, ever the visionary, recently linked the future of energy to humanity's cosmic ambitions, stating that "essentially all energy generation will be solar" once you grasp the Kardashev Scale. This scale, proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, measures a civilization's technological advancement based on its ability to harness ene…