Figure recasts that same data in terms of total energy. In this case, the lowest deformation rates show the fastest chemistry for a given total energy. This shows, at least for the range of states available from these runs, a pure temperature state is more efficient that a mixture of thermal and strain energy. For different heating rates, the trends are the same, with different divergence between values for different deformation rates. Plots for heating rates of 20.0 and 40.0 K/ps are available in Supplemental Materials section SM-2. This is expected, as using Eq. 6 shows the total energy of the system must be above 3200 K in order for the mechanochemical state to be more efficient. Hence, all states presented here are expected to show pure thermal energy as the superior route. It should be noted that using MD, no feasible heating rate is fast enough to reach above 3200 K with any un-reacted TATB remaining, an issue that is not resolved by using other HE materials. Additionally, initializing to temperatures near or above 3200 K results in all reactions occurring before the system reaches a thermal equilibrium or steady state temperature, potentially invalidating extracted kinetics.