What I take from Vaclav Smil is a way of writing about energy and materials, and I want that style for Silicarbon. Where I part ways is the idea that energy is only the ground of social life.
How the word moved
In June 2025 he was my model for method. By December 2025 he'd become a contrast: I read him as keeping energy in the ground, and I want it in the figure too.
In my words
"Equally importantly, I want to build upon how Vaclav Smil writes about Energy and Materials"
from Bhumics 20: Coca Conclusions, 11 Jun 2025
Related
- Contradicts metabology - Metabology pulls energy out of the ground and into the figure.
- Related Silicarbon - Smil is my model for how to write it.