Frederick Bott
2 min readNov 10, 2022

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Without meaning to seem sarcastic, we only need to look at what the plant in your graphic does, to see what to do.

It hauled energy up out of the ground all its infant life, against gravity until it formed leaves.

We might recognise that was the plant doing the effort of extraction, similarly as we do with money as debt, which is all promises to pay, therefore also promises to do extraction.

After that, energy flows continuously through the plant from leaves to Earth, in response to the Joules received by its leaves from the sun, and the plant does no more work of extraction.

We might see that as the same as us monetising the energy from the sun, and giving that money out for free.

Obviously the plant pays much more back to Earth in its lifetime than the initial deficit it took out.

Humanity just formed its first leaves in the form of solar farms all over Earth, after getting all our energy exclusively from extraction, for thousands of years.

Those are now already absorbing more than tens of GigaJoules per second in every developed country, and their product, which can be anything from fuel, to food (See "Solein"), is added to our economy, and yet not a penny is issued on it. Even public spending is issued as debt, hence the reason 50Bn is now be demanded back in UK.

This is the real reason folk can't see that the way out is by the energy of the sun, and it is much easier to take than anyone thinks. All it needs is issue of the money representing the solar product received and actually put to use

It's a trick played by the way we handle energy.

This clarifies it further, if anyone is interested:

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-reason-why-degrowth-is-not-what-is-needed-4416025899a2

And the 50Bn black hole is dealt with, using those prinicples, here:

https://eric-bott.medium.com/filling-the-current-uk-economy-50-billion-black-hole-with-light-34f9de4df245

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Frederick Bott
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