¶ Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting (2)
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In cosmic accounting we find that it costs nature one million dollars to produce one gallon pf petroleum as calculated in the astrophysicist’s and astrochemist’s respective energy terms accounted for in kilowatt-hour equivalents at the going 1974 US public utility retail selling rates to the consumers as expressed in dollars per kilowatt hours for the following cosmic services calculated at net cosmic energy investment and expenditure costs without cosmic overhead or cosmic profit:
(a) The quantity of energy involved in the photosynthetic conversion of Sun radiation into hydrocarbon molecules and their subsequent vast multiplication incident to the building, operation, and regeneration of all the organic bodies of all the other bio-species of the intricate intercomplexities of the ecological complex of our planet;
(b) The vast amount of Sun energy impounded by the biosphere’s one billion cubic miles of Earth’s atmosphere always exposed to the Sun whose energies are articulated in work as the critical terrestrial temperature control of its biospheric ecology and as winds and storms and atomization of the waters
