¶ Cosmic Accounting Sequence (2)
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"Now vegetation is designed on the land and the plankton and the algae in the sea, to impound the Sun radiation and then by photosynthesis to convert it in beautiful orderly molecular structures: the hydrocarbons. We have then-- this is what I call instead of entropy; I call it syntropy-- and this is where the energies are being impounded and sorted and collected in the most orderly ways. All the biological organisms making these beautiful hydrocarbons. And one each to the other, and so the little insect gets big, and the trees get bigger, as the hydrocarbons are continually being impounded, and getting buried more deeply and deeply. And so what we’ve been dealing in-- actually, oil-wise, and fossil fuels, and so forth-- is really exhausting some of the enormous savings account…
“One of my very great geologist friends, who is particularly an oil geologist of the highest order: and treating energy the way we do treat energy: work, lifting human weight against gravity a given height in a given amount of time-- which you can convert into kilowatt hours, or whatever it may be. I asked him to figure what it costs nature to make a gallon of petroleum. First, its impoundment, and then the shaking of the leaves off, and then broken into dust and what it takes in the way of time”
