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Wasted energy from fossil fuels is actually rather irrelevant. Wasted heat is a bargain price for the concentrated, dispatchable energy that gets delivered. Peter Huber and mark Mills in their book, The Bottomless Well, describe how some of the most important uses of energy are to obtain more energy or to concentrate energy, such as with a laser beam:
Wasted energy from fossil fuels is actually rather irrelevant. Wasted heat is a bargain price for the concentrated, dispatchable energy that gets delivered. Peter Huber and mark Mills in their book, The Bottomless Well, describe how some of the most important uses of energy are to obtain more energy or to concentrate energy, such as with a laser beam:
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