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Farouk al-Kasim is the Iraqi who is said to have played a big role in this outcome. I believe his story has been on HN before: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...

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This might be a good resource to get some more context on different countries’ energy systems and where petroleum plays in. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-03...

This is particularly visual. Not taking away from Farouk al-Kasims contribution but find Norway to see how unique their particular situation is.

Forgot the link to the energy maps https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/473335.pdf

Those are a little hard to compare since the green square for petroleum is the same size reagrdelss of number.

But ignoring that, Norway's chart don't seem that different from Iran, Iraq etc. What did you intend to demonstrate via these charts.

Definitely similar and the green cubes dont really show scale per capita at all. Didnt try to demonstrate anything other than to show some context for where Norways energy resources go compared to other countries.

Even better: https://www.iea.org/sankey/

And I think Brazil is trying to replicate the model

No, this is what Brazil should've done decades ago but could not due to corruption and short-sightedness. Nowadays, the only model that they are trying to replicate is that of authoritarian regimes.

how so?

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