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I like your thinking. As I understand, about 80% of a manufactured product's lifetime energy use is consumed before its end-user turns it on for the first time. I'm not sure how these questions apply to potatoes or other food. I started listing questions: Were the potatoes from a monocropped farm? Were herbicides, pesticides, fungicides involved? How far were they grown from your home? How were they transported to your home? Were farmers paid a living wage? Were GMOs involved? Was A.I. involved in these potatoes production? Yeesh. You've helped me realize that our food, too, has become part of the global super-factory. (I have a crop of potatoes in my garden that volunteers to produce every year. I just water and harvest the crop. This is different from commercial production.) Please check out my list of substances involved in manufacturing ONE smartphone: https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/enlightenment

--while one car can now have 100 computers. Thanks for writing.

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Thanks for writing! Here are a few other relevant pieces:

Fire hazards at the battery storage system coming near you

https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/bess-fire-hazards

Discovering Power’s Traps: a primer for electricity users

https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/electricity-primer

Call me a NIMBY

https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/nimby

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