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But a standard industrial pumping loop was redesigned to use at least 86 percent less energy, not by getting better pumps, but just by replacing long, thin, crooked pipes with fat, short, straight pipes.

Typically our retrofit designs save about 30 to 60 percent of the energy and pay back in a few years, while the new facility designs save 40 to 90-odd percent with generally lower capital cost.

In fact in this country, no new nuclear power plant has been able to raise any private construction capital, despite seven years of 100-plus percent subsidies.

That is how, for example, four German states in 2010 were 43 to 52 percent wind powered.

Portugal was 45 percent renewable powered, Denmark 36.

Now combine the electricity and oil revolutions, both driven by modern efficiency, and you get the really big story: reinventing fire, where business enabled and sped by smart policies in mindful markets can lead the United States completely off oil and coal by 2050, saving 5 trillion dollars, growing the economy 2.6-fold, strengthening out national security, oh, and by the way, by getting rid of the oil and coal, reducing the fossil carbon emissions by 82 to 86 percent.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

For 0.01 percent of this money, you could have put wi-fi on the trains, which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the journey, but would have improved its enjoyment and its usefulness far more.

If, at the same time, you'd gone and asked people, "What percentage of first-class mail arrives the next day?" the average answer, or the modal answer, would have been "50 to 60 percent."

What you need to do is, first of all, tell people that 98 percent of first-class mail gets there the next day.

Do you think Chopin would have been comforted by the thought, "Hey, 20 percent of the people who buy fake Chopin are more likely to go buy real Chopin"?

It's a cognitive illusion that we've been studying in my lab for the past few years, and 80 percent of us have it.

In the Western world, divorce rates are about 40 percent.

But when you ask newlyweds about their own likelihood of divorce, they estimate it at zero percent.

That's 75 percent.

But only 30 percent said that they thought families in general are doing better than a few generations ago.

Who here believes they're at the bottom 25 percent?

Who believes they're at the top 25 percent?

So cancer, for example, is about 30 percent.

So for example, if someone said, "My likelihood of suffering from cancer is about 50 percent," and we said, "Hey, good news.

The average likelihood is only 30 percent," the next time around they would say, "Well maybe my likelihood is about 35 percent."

But if someone started off saying, "My average likelihood of suffering from cancer is about 10 percent," and we said, "Hey, bad news.

The average likelihood is about 30 percent," the next time around they would say, "Yep.

Still think it's about 11 percent."

And it's not that they didn't remember the numbers that we gave them; everyone remembers that the average likelihood of cancer is about 30 percent and the average likelihood of divorce is about 40 percent.

So if someone said, "My likelihood of suffering from cancer is 50 percent," and we said, "Hey, good news.

Average likelihood is 30 percent," the left inferior frontal gyrus would respond fiercely.

And by the way, when I asked him about his own likelihood of divorce, he said he was quite sure it was zero percent.

Seventy-five percent of people in American local jails are there because they cannot pay bail.

We know this because when the Bronx Freedom Fund pays bail, 96 percent of clients return for every court appearance, laying waste to the myth that it's money that mattered.

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