A Hard Landing for Soft Energy
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Toleb's Criticism of Amory's Teaching Birds to Fly
Amory lovins said that you have to choose efficiency because it will save money. He contrasted that with something else, like building more power plants. i think one of the reasons that japan has been such an incredible force in the industrial world is that they've almost never had sufficient space or fuel,. They almost never had enough trees. Almost never had enough fuel. The entire time he was critiquing im, athe got it wrong about soft energy. Even though he described it as something that would have to be chosen, he described something that had always been occurring.
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