I thought it was perfectly obvious: the energy surplus is being tapped from another dimension. Imagine their outrage when the beings from that dimension discover what we're up to...

LOL! Didn't you borrow this from one of the Asimov's novels? "The Gods Themselves"?

It's gonna be the thiotimoline with it's four bonds at 90 degrees to each other that saves us, right?
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All these memories will be lost in time
like tears in rain