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Energy Transitions

Vaclav Smil

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Bill Gates recommends it
Even though this section overlaps with the other energy book he published this year (Energy Myths and Realities) it is still very much worth reading.

on gatesnotes.com · 6 Oct 2010

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.