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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Do You Model Energy Use and Energy Use in the US?

Saul Griffith is the founder of Sankey Energy, a company that models energy flow in the US. He says he uses all existing data sources to create an accurate picture of what's going on with our energy system. The first time we had an energy crisis in the US, it was the oil crisis and Richard Nixon made the first where you're sweaters efficiency speech. So now there are surveys and measurements that actually go into very fine detail about how people use their energy.

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