re: #109 Nojay UK

Just like your solar panels and Teslawall battery.

In Another Place we were having a discussion about energy sources and when we poked the ideas pile it turned out nearly everything is solar, including fission reactors which are powered by uranium from supernovae. Even black hole accretion disc generators, solar again. Geothermal, radioactivity powered. Elemental hydrogen fusion in a fusor is about the only non-solar energy source we could come up with.

Yes, and we are all made of star stuff.

I don’t like to call it “energy” however, people need to stop thinking of fossil and bio-fuels as energy even if they are. e.g. I don’t care if that fuel is “renewable” if it’s still putting aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon, and benzene ring compounds into our shared atmosphere.