How Keyboard Energy Really Adds Up Could your typing ever power more than your ideas
- Dec 15, 2025
- 2 min read
This Article Is Available In
Every time your fingers hit a keyboard, something tiny but measurable happens. A little force, a little movement, a little burst of keyboard energy released into the universe. It feels almost poetic to imagine those keystrokes quietly stacking up, especially when you think about the sheer number involved in writing something as massive as a novel.
On an individual level, each key press barely registers. The energy involved is so small it can be compared to nudging a droplet of water or lifting something lighter than a grain of dust. It is real energy, technically speaking, but it lives firmly in the realm of the microscopic. Enough to exist, not enough to impress.
Now zoom out. A novel is not a short text message. It can contain hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of characters. Add in edits, rewrites, deleted paragraphs, and late-night revisions, and suddenly the number of keystrokes balloons. Surely all that keyboard energy must amount to something meaningful. And this is where the idea becomes tempting…
