The Fifth Law's Paradox: No matter how highly mechanised and fossil fuels self-powered, fossil fuels extraction requires a number of people - as if the process executed by hands using buckets and ropes. Today, this number is 8 billion people - working flat out 24/7 - strong. “In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).
