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Glad you found it. Wondering about where she is right now "Ida Margrete Meier Auken is a Danish politician and member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. She has been a member of parliament since 2007. She was Minister for the Environment of Denmark from 2011 to 2014." - I thought only Brazilians forget quickly what politicians do or say but I think was wrong.

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Working for the WEF from what I could see - a revolving door of European politics and WEF think tanks - what could possibly go wrong?

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Love your work. Vaclav Smil wrote this about the erroneous assumption that energy system follow Moore's Law: https://spectrum.ieee.org/moores-curse

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It reminds me of a comment I saw back in 2014 at an investor conference in reference to the potential for battery technology - the observation was (1) there have been people working on batteries for c. 150 years, and (2) its chemical not digital, so expect incremental improvements, but not 10x (or more) improvements...

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