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She explains it here in this post https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-en....

Many comments try to allude to it. It is important what we are talking about- Primary energy, Secondary energy, Final energy or the Useful energy.

The embedded links go in further details.


He told me he was spending a lot of time cycling these days, on the same battered Titan road bike he had bought with saved-up pocket money as a boy. “I had my beliefs and my convictions and my bicycle,” he recalled fondly. “I was in my own world.” To lift his spirits, he had also taken up the cello again—another childhood pursuit—and started singing lessons. “Except for me, everyone else is a little kid at the class,” he said. In a few weeks, he was due to appear in an amateur opera, a production of “Hansel and Gretel.” Heuberger had been cast as the children’s father—“the bad guy, the weird guy”—who returns triumphantly from a profitable day at the market to find that his children have been abandoned alone in the forest. “He doesn’t really understand,” Heuberger said. “He thinks he’s doing a good thing. But he doesn’t get it at all.


COWEN: There’s an interview with Magnus on YouTube, and they ask him to rate your sanity on a scale of 1 to 10 — I don’t know if you’ve seen this — and he gives you a 10. Is he wrong?

ANAND: No, he’s completely right. He’s completely right. Sanity is being able to show the world that you are sane even when you’re insane. Therefore I’m 11.


This was also a great book- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117008.The_Courtier_and_...

Juxtaposition of the two, Spinoza and Leibniz, together made it a great read.

Spinoza sections are very very good and make you understand why Einstein would say that he believes in Spinoza's God


Thank You. Big fan of both, and I had never realized they had met.


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