If there is PoW component then it’ll take just as much energy as Bitcoin does to provide the same security, because energy spent = mining reward. Except it’s g

If there is PoW component then it’ll take just as much energy as Bitcoin does to provide the same security, because energy spent = mining reward. Except it’s going to be worse because VDF is the centralizing factor, it’s like having bitcoin where constructing a block takes really long time. The actor that finishes first has the advantage to start PoW and will win disproportionate amount of blocks by revealing their data at the last possible moment, preferably when or just before another actor publishes their “worse” PoW.