electricity
Mapping Resilience in Nature to Energy [1.3]
Can we map insights from biology (a very complex system) to our energy systems (which are also very complex)?
resilience
![Chasing Efficiency is Fighting Darwin [1.2]](/content/images/size/w600/2025/03/Ants-Winning-Evolution-1.png)
efficiency
Chasing Efficiency is Fighting Darwin [1.2]
Herbert Spencer summarized Darwin as “survival of the fittest” and not “survival of the most efficient”. Setbacks are inevitable and it’s resilience – not efficiency – that mitigates their impact.
![Efficiency, Resilience, and Maslow [1.1]](/content/images/size/w600/2025/03/1.1-Efficiency--Resilience--Maslow.png)
energy
Efficiency, Resilience, and Maslow [1.1]
Efficiency has value, but in complex systems it's still subordinate to resilience.
energy
Energy R&D: Resilience and Diversity
It is a cliché that digital cameras killed Kodak, but it deserves to be a cliché that Fujifilm survived. This example and many others suggest that while efficiency helps us in the short term, resilience carries us to the long term. We should consider this as we think about energy.