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Crazy Town Classics - Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman
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- Crazy Town
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- Aug 13, 2025
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- 5215
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Summary
All of humanity’s feats, whether a record-setting deadlift by the world’s strongest man or the construction of a gleaming city by a technologically advanced economy, originate from a single hidden source: positive net energy. Having surplus energy in the form of thirteen pounds of food per day enables a very big man, Hafthor Bjornsson, to lift very big objects. Similarly, having surplus energy in the form of fossil fuel enables very big societies to build and trade very big piles of stuff. Ma...