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Andy Masley

Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

15 books on the record · 15 Jun 2024 – 9 Apr 2025

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil

Book: Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization (and most of his books). This is an amazing book rewriting all human history as a process of learning to capture and more efficiently use more and more energy, and almost all events being guided by that.

on blog.andymasley.com · 9 Apr 2025 · Report

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The Prize by Dale Russakoff

Books: The Prize and The Quest by Daniel Yergen. Great popular history/science books on how so much of geopolitics has been determined and motivated by access to energy.

on blog.andymasley.com · 9 Apr 2025 · Report

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The Quest by Daniel Yergin

Books: The Prize and The Quest by Daniel Yergen. Great popular history/science books on how so much of geopolitics has been determined and motivated by access to energy.

on blog.andymasley.com · 9 Apr 2025 · Report

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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.