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Originally Posted by Locke
I dont get this. Of course we have. Over and over and over and over whenever something better, more efficient or more convenient comes along we drop whatever we were using before for that newer, better thing.
Or are you still reading at night by lamp-light powered by whale-oil?
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Perhaps more accurately it would be that humanity has never abandoned a primary source of energy. Despite the common use of whale oil as an example, it was never a major source of energy.
So when coal supplanted biomass, people still kept on burning wood. And when oil supplanted coal, coal use in 2019 is only 1.5% off its all-time high and 60% higher than it was 20 years ago. And natural gas is growing much faster than other sources of energy (mainly coal and nuclear) are declining from NG competition.
https://www.axios.com/despite-renewa...bce483473.html