What is the energy input to the network?

Assuming it's the energy required by the miners...

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It’s either the energy of the entropy generated by the miners (function of difficulty x 32-bit search space) or the energy of the entropy resolved upon a valid nonce discovery (number of possible states a block could take). These two are equal for every single block.

You cannot resolve entropy without generating entropy by mining.