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Learn how energy enabled rapid globalization.
Learn how energy enabled rapid globalization, both as both a widely traded product and as a facilitator for moving goods globally. In the ancient world, globalization was always a goal, but modern forms of energy provided the missing link.
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Globalization Preview
Preview: Season 2 Episode 6 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn how energy enabled rapid globalization, both as both a widely traded product and as a facilitator for moving goods globally. In the ancient world, globalization was always a goal, but modern forms of energy provided the missing link.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[upbeat music] - Energy is probably, of all product markets, the one that is most global.
- The Port of Los Angeles is an energy store in a variety of ways.
Energy is required to bring those ships there.
It uses electricity to run the cranes that lift the containers off.
There's just all sorts of energy right there in the port.
- When you move the goods then from around the world, you have to be efficient with the way that you move those goods.
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Clip: S2 Ep6 | 2m 47s | U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and others on the 1970s energy crisis. (2m 47s)
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Clip: S2 Ep6 | 2m 11s | Energy is critical to the Port of Los Angeles. (2m 11s)
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