An exercise in applied energy economics, social contagion theory, and the art of the reluctant rooftop installation ACT I: THE DEMAND SIDE – A LOT More Things That Need Power Finland today uses about 83 terawatt‑hours of electricity per year. That’s a lot. But the pipeline of new industrial projects we examined – data centres,…
We just walked through a model of how human beings build mental models of other people: layered, lagged, coherence‑driven, and stubbornly resistant to updating. That same cognitive architecture governs how we perceive situations – especially slow‑moving, complex, or psychologically distant crises. Let me give you a concrete scenario. It is early March 2026. The Strait…