{
  "id": "fuel.resource",
  "term": "fuel",
  "sense": "resource",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A resource whose consumption is what holds a parameter within its window.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "resource.material"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components work together: a drifting parameter would exit its range, but upkeep consumes a material resource to counteract drift and maintain the parameter within bounds.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained parameter containment",
      "consumptive maintenance",
      "resource-mediated stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Chernobyl RBMK reactor required continuous cooling even after shutdown, or residual decay heat would breach containment.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Earth's magnetic field persists due to convection currents in the outer core, fueled by radioactive decay of uranium-238.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel updates every 2-3 months; without developer time, security flaws would escape patching.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "fuel"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'wall.range-end' (redundant with window.range), 'hold.physical' and 'windows.opening' (irrelevant). Added 'resource.material' as essential for the consumption mechanism implied in the definiti"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fuel.resource"
}