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Wars rage. Ice caps melt. Reefs crumble. A child dies every 5 seconds of sheer hunger or preventable disease. Your 401K looks like a tip jar. An Escalade snaked your parking spot. Aimless teenagers repeatedly flip you off.

Day in the life?

Indeed some days. Yes, there is much to frustrate, infuriate and incapacitate. Apathy lurks. Entropy looms. But is this second law of thermodynamics inevitable? Is chaos preventable, degeneration reversible? That, I suppose is the nature of faith. I don’t exactly know what I believe but I know that I have to believe in the essential goodness of people – and I do.

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Ew.The laws of thermodynamics tell us that everything we do expends energy. Conversion efficiency, as it’s called, can never be 100 percent, which is why there’s no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. However, nowhere in those laws does it say that conversion efficiency must be as low as 36 percent. Which is the efficiency rate of power plants.

At present time, two-thirds of all energy that enters a power plant is lost before it creates the electricity we use.

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