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- ExplainerEconomic Security
What refining capacity is, and why it is the bottleneck
Refining is the step between a raw material and a usable one. By the end you will know why it is harder to replace than a mine, why it clusters in a few places, and what a country that cannot refine actually lacks.
- ExplainerIndustrial Policy
What upstream and downstream mean in an energy supply chain
The words split an industry into three stages with different economics, different regulators and different failure modes. By the end you will know where each boundary falls and why the stage a policy attaches to decides who pays for it.