Are we facing only more unpredictable price fluctuations that will eventually be moderated by transition to natural gas and renewable energies, or is this the real beginning of the end of cheap oil as the most important energy source of modern civilization? In turn, the latter could be seen as fairly catastrophic (we do not now have an equally flex

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In this policy paper, authors Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado explore what life would be like with endless energy. Coining the term “energy superabundance,” they look at energy policy, not in the usual sense of trying to restrict energy consumption, but as a way to promote energy abundance—a future in which energy is so clean and plentiful, limiting ... See more