Quote 07 from "The Bottomless Well"
One of the big points made by Huber and Mills in The Bottomless Well is that energy is cheap yet irrelevant:
... The order in the energy is the only part that has any value. The sun provides us with 100 watts (W) of light for free, through a couple of square feet of skylight, at noon on a moderately sunny day. Yet we pay good money for a 100 watt bulb and the electrons to light it. And thousands of times more for a 100 watt laser and its power supply. A photon is a photon, but better-ordered photons packed into less space, and delivered on demand, are worth more than the diffuse, disordered, episodically available alternative, however "renewable" the sunlight may be. [pg. 13, emphasis original]
Hmmm. Makes me think that those putty-clay models of capital that went out of style in the 80s should be revisited.
