The document discusses the relationship between energy consumption, economic development, and social welfare. It argues that money and the value of goods and commodities represent the energy required to produce them, and that access to abundant, affordable energy is necessary for a society to achieve prosperity. The document criticizes subsidies for renewable energy, arguing they divert resources from developing countries and represent wasted conventional energy resources. It calls for increased investment in energy efficiency and technologies like nuclear fusion to make renewables economically viable without subsidies.

1. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
Everything that arises, needs energy (2nd law of thermodynamics).
This energy comes from the sun, from food, from manual labor, from
conventional energy sources, etc.
With the use of energy and raw
materials begins wealth, bartering
begins and life expectancy increases.
Man is the dominant creature on
Earth.
The value of exchanged goods and
raw materials is the equivalent of the
energy stuck directly or indirectly
therein.
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2. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
Energy is used more and more to tap raw materials. Slowly the barter trade
is replaced by money transactions. As before, the products, money is now
also an equivalent to the energy contained in the product.
Only with the opening up of larger energy sources such as coal, oil and
nuclear energy, manages the slow social upheaval to the affluent society.
Social systems, democracy and decent life are accessible to more and more
people of the rapidly growing world population.
The increasing amount of money and commodities correlates to the value of
the consumed energy.
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3. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
But goods and money (hence the energy) can also be destroyed: breaking
the exchanged pitcher, crashes a hut purchased or whole regions are
devastated in wars, the equivalent values o r parts of it are lost forever.
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4. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
To summarize, money, or the value of a commodity or product is always the
equivalent of the energy contained in.
The vast majority of this energy comes from conventional energy sources.
Development of additional energy sources enables a society to achieve
prosperity and decent life. Is not enough energy available, the society
remains poor, malnourished and with low life expectancy (eg third world).
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5. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
If commodities or products are subsidized, the government spends more
energy (and money) to the producer, so they can be traded at all competitive in
the market.
An example is subsidisation of renewable energies. Conventional energy must
be used to make renewables marketable.
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6. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
Renewable energy is a waste of conventional energies, every kWh subsidized
"ecological energy" includes an equivalent from coal, nuclear or gas.
The subsidies in renewables are missing to secure the social systems or to
achieve for billion of people in other societies food, health and prosperity. With
each kWh consumed “green electricity” is somewhere in the world a much
needed medicine or a meal missing.
Renewable energies are therefore only socially and economically justifiable to
use when no subsidization is required.
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7. Renewable energy and social responsibility
The cost-energy-equivalence law
Conclusion:
• The subsidy of inefficient renewable energy must be stopped immediately in
order to protect the environment by reducing emissions
• Research in energy efficiency technologies, renewables and nuclear fusion
must be increased to reach market maturity beyond the need for subsidies
• The third world has to be supported in developing their own energy
ressources for their own benefit
How do you tell your children, that you have taken
away and destroyed limited existing resources to
consume unlimited additional existing resources such
as wind and sun?
Thanks to Dr. Heinz Schütte, http://www.kosten-energie-aequivalenzgesetz.com/KEAG-e.pdf
and
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