Frederick Bott
2 min readNov 16, 2024

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You've got something fundamentally wrong here, as well as what bigsky has pointed out, the reduction of electricity enetgy demand is not down to things becoming more efficient, it is down to domestic and community solar now supplying a lot of what used to be supplied by utilities Energy companies.
Not understanding that means you miss also that there has to be an impact on the value of money, now we are only monetising part of the economic activity of people.
What will happen to money issue when there is no money issued for all the economic activity done by free energy?
Ever wondered?
Of course it won't get that far, we will have economic collapse long before with even utilities Energy companies going bankrupt. I don't think anyone wants to see that, not really, there will still be a lot of folk dependent on utilities Energy when that happens.
The overall energy demand per capita hasn't changed much, it's where we are getting it from that has changed, and painting it as a win by the industries that exist just to try to improve efficiency when there is no such win doesn't help anybody, it just deepens the Enshittopia.
You might be using super efficient LED lights to save hundreds of Watts of heating energy dissipated from older incandescent lamps, but did you notice your heating system ramped up its output, to still deliver the heat energy you need in winter? Probably not, you are entirely solar powered if I recall correctly, so you won't be counting the pennies in energy bills.
I wish you'd taken all this on board when I gave it to you some time ago, before all the subsequent grief that has unfolded, by folk not understanding it.
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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