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Why is there a crisis if "energy can neither be created or destroyed"?

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There is a problem because if energy is created as machines worked everything would speed up until it breaks, and if energy was destroyed as machines worked everything would eventually slow down and stop. So in both cases the world would end, a whimper in one a bang in the other.

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Reference: How things Work Now(book)

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Answer: Scientists say that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, so therefore it is impossible for there to be an energy crisis.

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I'm pretty sure I'm right

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