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Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you need to feel the salt with your fingers as you add it, so you'll begin to understand how much does what.
Six Seasons
Joshua McFadden
Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as opposed to abstractly, about things that seem nearer to us in space, time, sociality, chance, and plan. Such concrete thinking can reveal itself, for example, in our using more concrete words as descriptors.
But effectively using renewable sources also means capturing the electricity at the moment it's produced and keeping it available for use when demand is high or because weather events like dunkelflaute, "dark doldrums," periods of cloud cover with little wind, mean that production is low. This requires energy storage, whether it's for hours, days, or even weeks.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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