Huge Techno-Velocity Ushering in Renewable Energy

It’s the birthday of Claude Monet, who, according to the Writer’s Almanac, spent his career “exploring the idea that you can never really see the same thing twice.” This, of course, is the notion that guides his numerous paintings of a single haystack, the Waterloo Bridge (pictured), the Rouen Cathedral, and so forth.

The concept is reminiscent of the famous quote of Heraclitus, “Into the same rivers we both do and do not step,” and its corollary, “Nothing endures but change.”

I thought this was worthy of mention, given the incredible pace of technological development in the energy sector.  It may be hard for some folks to believe, but humankind is in the process of making a wholesale replacement of its main energy source, trading in our belching, dirty old junker (fossil fuels) for the shining new model that is renewable energy.

I know how cavalier this sounds, but it really is happening right before our eyes—and, as I argue in my current book project, it’s happening largely due to pure market economics.