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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by empiricus on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:35AM (#16475048)
How do you like zero sum games?
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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:59PM (#16480048)
How do you like negative-sum games?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

(And yes, the system you're in, writ large, is sufficiently closed for this to hold true.)

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