Frederick Bott
1 min readMay 27, 2024

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What I noticed about Gaza, as did a few others in Medium, is that there was a very high proportion of solar panels on the roofs of most buildings in Gaza. When we compare with what that might have meant in coverage of energy needs, UK for example has about thirty percent, going on figures of utilities energy decline vs population increase.
Trying to gauge what Gaza might have had in comparison, it looks like maybe 70 percent, in my opinion.
That would have meant 70 percent less people going through the turnstiles into Israel to do the low paid work that Israelis refused to do.
This in turn would have meant less business for the utilities energy companies that Israel insisted supply the power to Gaza. They refused to allow the Gazans their own utilities power stations.
By going nearly completely solar, the Gazans were slipping out of the energy slavery loop.
Now they are being genocided.
This is how swarms of ants work also, the outliers are genocided when they are seen to be no longer contributing energy to the core.
Was any individual in Israel actually aware of the system of energy slavery they were running in Gaza? Probably not. At least they would have convinced themselves they weren't.
And look, is this not the way all countries control their own people, by energy slavery?
What happens when we get to seventy percent energy independent in developed countries?

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Frederick Bott
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