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Emmet Penney - The Looming Energy Crisis

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

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The Grid Is Getting Frayed, Right?

In lebanon there are guys that are amapia, who controls who gets access to generators and who doesn't. And they are the main obstacle to a centralized national grid, because it would put them out of business. What might that look like in a western contest? California's deasel back up fleet is now equal to 15 % of the entire grit. It is 24 times the size of the state's battery fleet. This is the fraying of the industrial commons,. Those deasel back ups get put, of course, in poor neighborhoods, but are for the service of the wealthier californians. There's not going to be some more agrarian future out there

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