The modern history of energy is a 1000 repetitions of the same basic short story:
“This revolutionary tech X emerged and boomed for a few years, then the price of Y skyrocketed/collapsed and X collapsed for a decade”
Rockefeller‘ a “ruinous competition” but in innovation
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Are there any net trends that you can identify within these cycles? I suspect average energy density and net power must be increasing...what about efficiency? Entropy production / MW? Avg price to consumers (inflation adjusted and balanced for total avg consumption)?


