New DOE Sankey Diagram: Equity / Bro / Grift / Crypto / Porn / Solar / Data / Energy System Approaching Total Closure, Self-Sufficiency

In a synthetic discovery broadly compared to the work of Galloway and Leach, NREL investigators tracing energy and capital flows between renewable energy systems, those systems’ project finance assumptions via primary-contracted-offtakers, the primary clients of those offtakers, and, in turn, the primary consumers of those offtakers, have discovered a previously uncharacterized, enclosed, and self-sustaining sunlight-to electricity-to-money-to bros-to-data-to-grift/crypto-to-porn-to-bros-to money-to light-to-electricity ecosystem that is nearly self sustaining without external reference or input and which may soon overtake photosynthesis and geotechnical processes in terms of overall magnitude of energy transfer in Earth’s biosphere.

Researchers have tentatively named the resulting energy system the “Bro-o-sphere” and posit that it may represent the total energy output of the Solar System within 10 years, if BNEF projections are correct. “If you enclosed it in glass, it would function forever…a world unto itself. A world that would be….I…I guess….better than the same world with coal instead of solar in one corner?” asked an anonymous NREL investigator, to no one in particular, as she opened an Incognito window.