Do You Know When You're About to Get a Hairdryer?

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We're keeping our house at 1415 degrees centigrade, just enough to keep the pipes from freezing. And we're not alone. There's lots of families who are doing this. So when you look at a hairdryer or an electric oven, and you're about to get the human brain services that we get from cheap energy, do you then in your mind translate that to dollars or Swedish money? It's it's past that point. I mean, we have this app. So this app shows me, they'll put it where let's see where we are right now. We try to run the washing machine accordingly or turn the heat on accordingly.

Winter has come - and for some people it’s colder and more expensive than the recent past. This week Nate reconnects with Nora Bateson to discuss how she and others living in Sweden are responding to the phenomenal spike in their electricity costs, which are currently 35-40x higher than this time last year. What steps are people taking in their own homes to stay warm and reduce energy use, and what tools and support is the government providing its citizens? Is there any single event or person to blame for the drastic increase in energy costs or is the root cause broad and deep within the systems we have created? What can we learn from this dress rehearsal as we anticipate and prepare for The Great Simplification?

For Show Notes and More visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/20-keeping-warm-data

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