Jones on Nostr: > The cheapest energy is the stuff you never use. I read it as "the cheapest energy ...

> The cheapest energy is the stuff you never use.

I read it as "the cheapest energy is the energy you don't use", which is surely true, but maybe it's not what you meant.

> GDP = hierarchy = energy intensity

I don't know how hierarchy originated, there are some hypotheses, such as those mentioned by Graeber and Wengrow in "The dawn of everything", and others, like this one, for example, https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.6, but nothing is certain; anyway, i think GDP is more like one of many consequences of hierarchy, although it surely also contributes to reinforce it; and i think "our" very much excessive energy consumption and its current destructive modes of "production" (it's how i read your "energy intensity") are very much connected to hierarchy, like many other negative things, but i don't think "hierarchy = excessive energy production and bad modes of its 'production'", i think the first can exist also without the latter.

> Jevons paradox isn’t. Intensity x scale explains it.

I agree.

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