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Yes, the sun bombards us with free energy that all energy on the earth is sourced from, so dont worry about accounting, since we clearly dont have the same amou

• ninetyninenine 1y ago
  That energy accumulates as low entropy. The earth is a continuous low entropy reservoir soaking up the energy and continuously generating more complexity via evolution and also via economic progress. That’s how the accounting works out. The reality is energy is neither created or destroyed. It just reaches a non workable state. In terms of balance of physical energy we technically receive the energy then the energy radiates off the earth. We don’t keep the energy. What we do keep is the low entropy. The energy comes forth from the sun in a concentrated beam. We extract the low entropy from the beam into complexity. Over millions of years this complexity accumulates making earth a reservoir of increasing complexity and lowering entropy. The beam of energy from the sun gets all of the low entropy extracted and radiates into space in a non useable form.