# Energy

`kaal:entity:energy`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `energy`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3782198-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-031) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Proof of work consensus is energetically wasteful because the entire global network redundantly computes wrong nonces, with the Bitcoin network consuming as much energy as the country of the Czech Republic.
  > The Bitcoin network is performing about #)!% =K55,555,555,555,555,555,555 hashes every second in June )5)5. That requires as much energy as the entire country of the Czech Republic.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**2026**

- [6421319-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-010) [mechanism/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- If intelligence becomes post scarce, the binding constraint migrates rather than disappearing, moving to electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts material inputs into cognitive output.
  > If intelligence becomes post-scarce, the binding constraints migrate to the physical inputs that sustain it: electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare-earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts these material inputs into cognitive output.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/energy.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.