I was saying, across the devices I can mine on, my best energy efficiency is 5 times worse than profitable at my local level of energy subsidy.

Low/negative energy costs aren't a product of a rational market with today's technology, and our markets are controlled by the authorities, so you can consider irrational pricing "subsidized."

In a long-running rational market, we might have low or negative energy prices today due to different technology, but if the energy market suddenly turned rational today, prices everywhere would be higher than Maine, until the higher prices cause infrastructure to develop more.

Financial profit turns into actual profit if you use it to make a profit, but it isn't actual profit on its own. The subsidy might be paid for in non-financial ways like your health