<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Almost, but not quite, Jochen. He doesn't know about embodied energy. A motor car has an embodied energy contents of 20 800k kWh, while an electric car's embodied energy amounts to 34 700 kWh. Perhaps if he knew this he wouldn't be so optimistic. We are racing toward our doom.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:06 AM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Interesting IEEE podcast: an interview with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Theinhardt-Regular,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Václav Smil, who wrote a book about "Grand Transitions", similar to "</span>The Major Transitions in Evolution" from John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Theinhardt-Regular,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span></div><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/geek-life/history/a-theory-of-almost-everything" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/geek-life/history/a-theory-of-almost-everything</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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