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by WalterBright 782 days ago
> energy in the real world isn't free.

That's because we haven't figured out how to harness it.

For example, 99.9999% of the sun's energy just disappears off into space.

We sit on a hot planet, all that's needed to drive our energy needs is to drill a hole through the mantle. But nobody has figured out how to do that yet.