John, please say more about this - for instance what do you mean by "waste heat?" In 2023 total primary energy consumption of fossil fuels is estimated to be 140,000 TWh. Are you considering all, or only some of that to be "waste heat?"
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What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.
This is one of my favorite passages from The Road. If you have ever lost anything Beautiful. Then you know, the crushing and unrelenting Truth, the just-so-ness, of this existence. Things that once were - and can not be made right again.
maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were
Call me late to supper - but here's my 2 cents.
Of books I've read, yes, Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Of books I started but never finished, Theodore Dreiser's, An American Tragedy, or John Keegan's, The First World War.
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