A good deal of The Bottomless Well is about getting the laws of thermodynamics into the discussion of energy polcy:
One can likewise say that it takes energy to cool a room - yet it is a surfeit of energy that makes us want to cool it in the first place. "Energy" itself thus explains nothing' as noted earlier, we can't even "consume" it - energy is always conserved. ... What matters isn't energy but order. [ pg. 53]




