If you shear (scissors) then there should be less loss, maybe some distortion though. If you saw, you lose the sawdust. if you slice (knife), it might be either way or a bit of both.
Most likely you lose something, whether it's a loss that matters, that depends.
Cheap , fairly-easy, portable, storable source of energy, and the current supply chains are very high capacity. Lots of well understood methods and machines to use it. An oil tanker on sea or land moves a hell of a lot of energy to wherever people want it.
Population keeps growing. No way are all of those people going to leave that stuff in the ground, if "we" don't take the cheap stuff, "they" will. So it becomes like a race to find and extract it all.
Even if you don't want it personally, someone in your economy or military will be better off for it. Some people will go looking for it - and someone'll get rich if they find it.
Virginia Occidentale has a nice ring to it. It''d fuck up John Denver too.
some very watery salad here
I "could" get out of bed and get to work early.
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