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Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Energy at the crossroads vaclav smil background notes for a presentation. Forgetting we are not god by vaclav havel articles first. He is the author of forty books, including power density. David lipnowski as a teenager in the 1950s, vaclav smil spent a lot of time chopping wood.
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