Kardashev - the advancement of the society is determine by its energy use.

There is no such thing as too much energy, just use it smartly. Energy generation is an elite business, only few can do it. The nonsense that you need a utility bill to prove your residence is crazy (aka must pay your dues/taxes). Grid is so 19 century IMHO. Let people generate their own energy (hydrogen, solar, wind, nuke, diesel) let people decide. A town or village in Austrian Alps surrounded by 3 huge waterfalls doesn't need nukes or coal, only needs a hydro turbine or two and has cheap electricity for life. Similar town in Arizona desert can survive on solar alone, etc. There is no one size fits all. but it became a regulated big business and very soon they will try to limit your use: Oh mister You don't need that much energy... How DF do you know what I need? Drives me nuts. Self sufficiency is my personal goal including energy generation.

I remember this being something that immediately made the humanitarian side of bitcoin click for me, even before I knew what the halving was, or the difficulty adjustment, etc. I already knew at the time what the benefits of sound money were. Just knowing that miners are competing for block rewards, and miners with the cheapest electricity win (everything else being equal), made it obvious how quickly the purported climate crisis could actually come to an end if the government would allow it to. It sounded like the “X Prize” to me / I always wondered why the government didn’t just put out an X Prize styled bounty for literally every problem they claim we have. I wondered all of this before I realized the gov’t would never want to give up that much control and influence to the private market.