The Second Sin Is That Energy Is Like Currency

Energy is rather like currency. So if I said to you, here's a hundred dollars, you would probably say thank you. But if I didn't mention to you that I was giving you a hundred Jamaican dollars, you'd probably be a little bit disappointed because you probably thought I was givingYou a hundred US dollars. And energy is exactly like that. It's denominated in units like jewels or British thermal units or kilowatt hours or the like. There's an exchange rate among them. We make so much of our primary energy from fossils, all the transition away from fossils is going to be impossible. If we don't, if we're not sinners against thermodynamics,