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    "headline": "The Circuit Paid for Every Bit It Erased",
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    "dek": "Renesis converts ordinary netlists into verified energy-recovery circuits and rejects rewrites that worsen either reported energy table.",
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    "body_text": "The open-source synthesis tool tracks switching, erasure and observability while mapping a logically reversible result to one of eight adiabatic circuit families. Every transformation is equivalence-checked and must improve at least one cost table without worsening the other. Fifteen of nineteen held-out circuits improved, with a best-arm median energy of 0.91 times the default. The accounting is circuit-level and technology-specific, not a claim that logical reversibility alone removes thermodynamic cost.",
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