A Hard Landing for Soft Energy
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The Importance of Integrative Design
i am attracted to this idea of of a synthesis between the soof best of the two campsut, i think that's what you're alluding to as well. One of the big intellectual energy debates at the dawn of the eco modernist movement is when braketow institute and others pointed out that amory lovins had fundamentally misunderstood rebound. I don't know if we talked about jevans paradox here on the show. Just in brief, jevens was a economist and thinker from the industrial revolution in the u k. He noted the apparently counter intuitive fact that if you quadrupled the efficiency of a steam engine, you would likely radically increase the amount of coal demanded. Since
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