I agree bypassing the system is necessary, but energy efficiency is not really the problem; it is more energy direction; we are taking it out of Earth, when we should be putting it in, and the only source that can be used to put energy in is solar, which can actually be freely implemented and scaled up, if we saw how to support it economically.
We already saw it, but still we don't believe it, as far as I can see.
The Joules from the sun are the only kind not forming any kind of stored form on Earth, but actually contributing to all those stored forms, so the only kind we can use without destroying any stored forms on Earth.
This is proven by observing we can have all the power of internal combustion engines with no generation of pollution, using hydrogen fuel which we generated solely from solar energy.
There, we created fuel which was additional to the existing stores of energy on Earth, so we can truly use that fuel without environmental cost (we added energy to Earth by creating the fuel, and we add further energy to Earth by doing further work with that fuel that we created, in the same way as plants always add energy)
Imagine how much beneficial work can be done in that mode, and we start to see the value in having more humans.
The more the merrier, if we just got plugged into solar power, in a similar way as plants are.
A consequence of it, is that valuing it correctly means we have to move money to representing a number of Joules per token money.
Since the Joules of energy coming from the sun are for free, in the form of Joules per second, so also money has to become freely issued, as tokens per second.
That is radically different from tokens just sitting in a bank account, or in the Joules stored in a gallon of fuel ("Capital").
With free energy has to come free money.
The free energy is already there. What we need to put it to use, is free money.
At some point we will have to demand that.
To me this is the revolution needed; the hack of the system.
It is simply to down tools, all tools, and demand free money.
Free energy has to follow very quick, as that is the only way to supply infinite free money.
We know it works because we saw it already, when oil prices went negative, the only time in history, and the dollar price, went up, even with the issue of 4Tn free money, in one month.
I've explained more about the technical information of how it works in my stories about the "Kardashev Hinge", and "The money-fuel tree".
I hope it might help.