re: #123 Nojay UK

Acksherly, we’re not. Hydrogen was created in the Big Bang over 300,000 years before there were any stars at all. Deuterium too, not sure about tritium. Everything else up from there is fusion ash or supernovae banging the rocks together.

Energy is Civilisation. It’s clean water and transport and fertiliser and food processing and distribution and heat in the winter and A/C in the summer, washing machines and Netflix data centres and escalators and all the Good Stuff. Poor people don’t have access to energy the way rich people do and if there’s coal or oil or gas under their feet or trees and shrubs around them they will collect and burn those resources to harvest that energy. Sucks, doesn’t it?

Everything else up from there is fusion ash…

so star stuff.