wasted energy is when someone uses energy for something i personally do not like. when the sun hurtles 1e20 times the total energy requirements of earth into the literal void, that’s not waste
waste is a scoped term, right? like this is a gratuitous intuition pump, but if you withheld food from a starving person, that would be wasteful in a different sense than food rotting in a storage facility on the other side of the country