To keep the light on & party happening the OECD, our carbon based energy scarcity means billions of people live in radical poverty, as other elite people fly around the world in private jet aircraft they own like toys of rich men almost a trope for most of human history. The billionaire are the Kings of today because of how they wield political & economic power worldwide.
The act of living increases entropy. Think of a typical American Family with a 2500 square foot house on 1/2 acre of land with a big green lawn front & back where the barbecue propane fueled meat cooker located, a lawn mower fueled by gasoline with a small air cooled carburetor engine of about 5 hp that spins a metal blade fast to cut the grass. In the garage two newer cars, a power sports toy that also runs on gasoline. The home features a 200 amp utility panel, many power outlets, high speed internet, water, natural gas plumbed in to heat air and water, sewer or septic to drain away waste from two or more toilets that flush fresh water with poo and pee, many sinks, a dishwashing machine, clothing washing machine, a clothing dryer machine, vacuums, TV's, computers, a microwave oven, an oven & stove top with many burners, any number of smartphones even old ones in a drawer, probably stuff they own stored in the garage with their cars like bicycles, skis, snowboards, scooters, motorcycles, or seasonal decorations. They probably own investments, have a 401K or IRA or Pension & live like a king from antiquity, literally wanting for nothing needed, all their lives basics are more than covered redundantly, they even have a wired in natural gas backup generator & portable emergency gasoline fueled generator, their barbecue runs on a 4.6 gal 20lb painted steel propane tank with a brass safety valve used to fill it & dispense propane to the regulator which turns down the pressure before it enters the jets or burner in the grill. This my friends, the American Dream requires 6 kilowatts of energy 24/7 for each person in that house, so a Typical family of Mom (female XX, & Dad (male XY) with children (XX or XY for girls or boys), so 4 people, that's 24 kilowatts 24/7 for that kind of ultra privileged lifestyle that few Americans appreciate and most of whom also take it for granted completely unaware that this is radical wealth compared to the global human average living conditions. Can you imagine the total lifetime emissions of people living like Americans living the American Dream?
Even the end of world war three unknown since it has not started yet, but who will survive hard to know because of this. You do not know what you do not know until you know and we cannot know what will happen during world war 3 because it's not happening yet, but many people sense it coming like me.
War very expensive, kills a lot of people, many of the problems the war seeks to solve remain unsolved after the war is over, but much else damaged by war, many innocent people are killed, roads & building & power plants & power polls & transformers at substations, natural gas pumps, water pumps, much of the internet & power services are gone during war because it damages those systems as strategic targets, in drone warfare, in biological warfare, in chemical warfare, with nuclear bombs set off, look what happened to Japan in Hiroshima & Nagasaki when the US bombed both locations with nuclear weapons to end World War Two.
Do you wonder why so many famous people were traveling to Epstein's island of ill repute? To buy the Ovaries of African women, to get the highest quality Stem Cells for elite medications & expensive treatments available to the hyper wealthy worldwide. They also get them from umbilical cords & aborted babies, but that is not enough supply. Perhaps they championed abortion to get more stem cells. Many more questions remain unanswered.
How do they traffic more than 100 tons of gold out of Africa illegally into Swiss refineries of Gold? How are members of the Swiss industrial base & government affiliated with the questionable child labor gold? Does the bright economy of Switzerland rely of exploiting artisanal miners in Africa, many of whom are children in dirty unsafe conditions, very unfair trade. Shame of you who like me own so many electronics with batteries containing conflict cobalt mined by children in the DRC, controlled by rebells holding AK47 rifles to slave labor enforce forced child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of times more cobalt in every BEV or battery electric vehicle battery pack lithium ion batteries.
Entropy, fuel burned into air pollution long ago, the easy crude oil already gone. Peak oil already happened, but now we have synthetic fuels made from natural gas & coal, from dump gas, sour gas, bio gas, compost gas, swamp gas, sewer gas, we can make synthetic gasoline & diesel & jet fuel from captured tube in but to bag pipe system at dairy farms or CAFO.
Computers, operating systems, board logic, CPU chips connected with gold wires to gold plated pins that plug into the motherboard holder with a matching set of connections arranged so that every CPU pin plugs into corespondent hole in the mount, then a tension bar clamps the connections as it is lowered & secured. Thermal paste applied to the heat spreader or cover of the CPU chip, metallic, it transfers heat energy to the heatsink, typically a machined aluminum heat spreader with a brushless motor fan that blows cooling air into the high surface area heatsink so that heat energy transfers from the chip into the air, the hot air expelled into the case, then fans in the case expel the hot air into the room where the PC operating.
Entropy, More Energy, AC has to pump the heat somewhere, so does your fridge, it transfer heat to the room where the fridge is operated, that's why you hear the fridge compressor operating in cycles, so it can pump the heat to the external radiators under or behind your fridge that you should clean of dust periodically so they work correctly :)
Most personal computers are desktops featuring a power supply to convert AC grid power into DC 12V & 5V & 3.3V into the 24 pin connector attached to the motherboard, mounted to a case with standoffs & screws, you have a solid state hard drive that plugs into its slot and then screwed down to secure it, similarly the graphics card with its GPU & memory plugs into a mainboard slot, secured with a screw, power cables from the PSU are routed directly to the graphics card 6 & 8 power pins, the high end NVIDIA stuff can huff down 300 watts at a full tilt, and you better have a big case to fit a giant graphics card like that high end NVIDIA stuff ideal for discrete graphics gaming on STEAM for example :) That's an online gaming platform for PC gamers. At every stage there is a lot of heat, say HEAT DEATH OF THE EARTH
Gold can be dirty or cleaner, but all mining emits pollutants, some have captures with filters & polymer beads & HEPA like super fine RO membrane filters, the water running off the mine can be cleaner than the natural water nearby if its filtered enough by expensive technology that requires regular replacements & cleaning & maintenance. There is no free lunch in Physics.
Every wonder why automotive engines cannot be more fuel efficient? That is because the temperature difference between the air temperature & fuel combustion temp limited by the materials used in the engines construction. If the engine could lean burn the fuel hotter at higher temperatures it could be more fuel efficient with higher thermal efficiency like some of the best power plant turbines which convert mechanical energy inputs into electrical power with net system efficiency of higher than 50%, as do many Toyota Hybrid vehicle engines with efficiency focused ECO mode activated by the driver, the ECU runs a leaner fuel mix once the engine fully warm at its full operating temperature, or LEVEL 5 operation, where level 0 cold off, level 1 cold start, level 2 warm from running a few minutes, level 3 when engine coolant & oil & block are near full temp, level 4 when all the emissions controls are fully working, then Level 5 when system totally on after about 15 minutes of driving steady state at freeway speeds. But your cars 100kW piston engine sends 50% of the fuels energy out the tailpipe as heated pollutants like CO2, H20, CO, NOX, SOX, Particles, Fumes like HC, Soot, Metals & Oxides of Metals, all sorts of stuff, thousands of chemicals are present in vehicle exhaust, especially that of Turbine Jet Engines on Aircraft that have no catalytic converter and burn the jet fuel in a very dirty way that makes air quality near airports very dirty.
In nature animals eat plants, larger animals eat smaller animals, the Sun bombards the Earth with light & heat & infrared & ultraviolet that plants convert into sugars & starches & carbohydrates & some fats or oils & proteins. Trophic magnification means a small amount of mercury emitted taken up my small organisms becomes more concentrated as larger organism eat those smaller organisms & concentrate the mercury, finally into giant tuna fish at the top of that ocean food web system, then people eat the Tuna with the mercury which caused brain damage as mercury damages the glial cells & myelin of the brain tissue causing madness with higher exposure levels. Mercury metal a liquid, but as a salt it can enter people & other organism where it become a dangerous heavy metal toxin. This makes coal power emissions exceedingly toxic as they contain lead, arsenic, mercury, thorium, uranium, nickel, copper, aluminum, all sorts of other elements are present in coal that end up in the coal fly ash & particle emissions, all considered normal or naturally occurring in the minerals we call coal to dig up & burn dirty to make heat, steam to spin turbine generators to make electricity to sell over the grid to utility customers.
Gold as money does not tend to lose value over time like common currencies like the USD or EURO
I like Gold the metal, other than copper its the only one with color naturally. Though heating stainless steel can get a nice golden cold, so can doing the same with titanium, you can get a whole rainbow of colors heating titanium camping gear :) I love stainless steel exhaust systems where the hottest parts near the engine header get so hot that they color oxidize beautiful :)
When Jesus Christ was a man, a 1 ounce coin of gold bought about $3000 adjusted for inflation of nice all leather sandals, a hand made wool full body garment, in his time all fabric was hand made slowly & very expensive, as was leather hand made shoes. Even today artisanal goods like a samurai sword that takes 1 month for a talented expert blacksmith in Japan to fabricate mostly by hand from raw materials, to make the edge hard & sharp to hold its cutting edge while the tine of back of the blade flexible or softer, bonded into an exceptional art work example of sword making unmatched in many ways by any other means, but costly at thousands of dollars per example. The worldworldss finest paint brushes are about the same price as an ounce coin of gold today, around $3,300 dollars. Our 2020 Yamaha MT03 Motorcycle was $6000 out the door all said brand new back then, by comparisons.
Gasoline fuels my 2022 Toyota Corolla LE Sedan Hybrid Synergy Drive. I just add 10 gallons & go 613 miles or get about 60 MPG amazingly, some 20-40% more fuel efficient than my wife's 10 Prius III which has a similar 2ZR-FXE engine & hybrid 2 motor generator drivetrain PSD setup, but Toyota tuned & optimized the core of this to shove it into the Corolla Hybrid since they sell 10 Corolla Hybrids for every 1 Prius for example. Our 2001 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro sedan or 13 Honda PCX150, they all run on gasoline, mostly ethanol free gasoline from The Grange in Issaquah Washington, but at $5.29 per gallon for regular, its not cheap fuel, but it also does not contain up to 10% ethanol from GMO fuel corn crops.