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What Did You Learn About Energy?
BP was interested like a lot of energy companies at the time and still for several reasons. Energy is about scale, unless you really go in and introduce a technology that's going to make a material difference. You might be making money, which is fine, but if you want to impact the energy system, it's about scale. The world as a whole uses about 550 or 600 quads of energy every year. So people don't understand the scale of... Well, there's nothing more annoying than arithmetic.