Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Energy Crisis in the United States
The U.S. produces 80 percent of its own energy, but has to import the majority from Russia and Ukraine. Fracking came along at just the right time to bail us out in 2008, he says. It takes 40 to 60 years to undergo a major energy transition; where are we in that transition? "I don't know where the starting point is"
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