Want an Energy Revolution?
City Journal Mark P. Mills | May 3, 2019 It won’t come from renewables—which can never supply all the power we need—but from foundational scientific discoveries. Throughout history, some 60 percent to 90 percent of every nation’s economy has been consumed by food and fuel costs. Hydrocarbons changed the way that humans organize their productive capacity. The coal age, followed by the oil age, and now by the ascendant age of natural gas, has (at least for developed nations) driven the share of GDP devoted to acquiring food and fuel down to around 10 percent. That transformation constitutes one of …