There is no scarcity of energy, there is just a competition of business models. The amount of energy we could produce via solar thermal alone is entirely elastic to the demand at current prices, within several orders of magnitude. https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-in-the-world …
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Replying to @Plinz
If all the philanthropy money was put on providing power to all, we will easily meet the goal in 18 months
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Replying to @muralipiyer
Most of the money would have to be used to defeat or buy out the incumbent energy companies, which may have bad macro economic side effects. (If it was otherwise, the US or EU would just print all the "philanthropy money" it needs and do it.)
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