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@vgr
Something I’m pondering: Non-renewable energy is a very generic broad category. Lots of things will burn happily in an oxygen atmosphere with very low tech enabling. Fossils, living things, moist dead things… But renewable energy is always a high-precision narrow technology: wind, solar, photosynthesis, tidal…
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Renewables are fundamentally higher tech because second law No way around it
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Applied to psyche… almost any kind of trauma, resentment, fucked-upness will “burn” in a polluting way to power a psyche at the expense of strengthening a shadow/void. But renewable psyche energy always comes from a very precise mechanism. Like proving math theorems.
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