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2026-08-03 12:15 UTC
…It’s also worth noting that the perfect overlap in our present moment between imagined use of fossil fuels and power generation from fossil fuels is itself impossibly ideal.
At the macro system level, that overlap is very close, through the magic of the invisible hand and all that, but at the institutional level it goes awry.
For example, oil and gas futures markets are currently severley misaligned with spot prices. That misalignment will collapse soon. Painfully…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-08-03 13:16
…and when that oil and gas markets misalignment collapses it will to some extent help the even greater public misapprehension converge on reality. At which point we begin to get into a reality check on affordability, which also seems to be living in fantasy land at present. So my final diagram for now attempts to address price, which is not the same as biosphere cost. Some notes follow…