There is a bookshelf in my office reserved for works of clean energy prophecy that are only a decade old but that now seem more out of date than Baden Powell’s 1908 Scouting for Boys. It includes The End of Oil and The Last Oil Shock. This shelf serves as my reality-check shrine.

I mean no disrespect to the authors. Many shared their dreams, encouraged partly by the…

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