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Energy Changes on Multi-Decade Time Scales
We tend to have a shorter time frame for expectation of results. Energy is very different, the systems need to work as a system. The facilities last decades, and we demand high reliability. So energy changes on multi-decade time scales. It doesn't change every year or two. And people have come to expect that things can change rapidly. There are good physical and economic reasons why energy cannot change.