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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Are you of the belief that generally speaking people would have been less inclined to invest in greener technology and R&D had they known that fossil fuel usage was more damaging to our environment than we had previously been lead to believe?
While it’d be frankly near impossible to determine with any certainty exactly how much or how little green technology may have been set back as a result of misleading information regarding fossil fuel use, I think you’d probably agree that the misinformation played at least some role in slowing down earlier investments in greener technology.
That isn’t big bad oil boogie man rhetoric, it’s just common sense.
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There has always been a massive incentive for companies to develop better energy storage and battery technology. Even with full fossil fuel use that would be a massive game changer. A device that doesn't require constant energy input is kind of the holy grail of consumer products.
There was nothing deliberately impeding, for example of the development of the Lithium Ion battery. You had multiple massive corporations pouring large amounts of resources into their development. All the large electronics corporations had been competing with/collaborating on that technology since the 1970s.