Future Concept
Fusion Era
Commercial fusion as the inflection point beyond the solar learning curve.
Commercial fusion as an inflection point that extends energy abundance into workloads and geographies solar cannot reach.
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Tag
energy
8 articles tagged “energy”.
Future Concept
Decentralized Energy Grids
Peer-to-peer electrons, virtual power plants, and the grid as a market.
The grid becomes a peer-to-peer market of prosumers and virtual power plants, delivering the distribution layer of energy abundance.
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Innovator
Nikola Tesla
Architect of the alternating-current grid; died in obscurity, vindicated by the century that followed.
Engineer of the AC grid and polyphase motor; died in obscurity, vindicated as the electrical substrate of modern abundance.
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Concept
Peace Dividend
When the material rationale for conquest weakens, what happens to the war budget?
The economic argument that abundance weakens the material rationale for conquest, together with the structural critiques of that view.
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History
Energy Wars
From Gulf tankers to European pipelines — and why distributed solar changes the map.
How control of energy production and transit has shaped conflict, and how distributed solar-plus-storage alters the strategic map.
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History
Nuclear Power from Weapons Programs
Civilian reactors as a partial inheritance of the Manhattan Project.
Civilian nuclear power as a partial inheritance of wartime fission research — with real abundance potential and real costs that must be accounted together.
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Geopolitics
Energy Weaponization (Post-2022)
Gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, and the accelerated European abundance response.
Post-2022 European energy politics — gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, accelerated renewables — as an abundance response to a scarcity shock.
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Pillar
Energy Abundance
Why the solar-plus-storage learning curve matters more than any forecast.
The load-bearing first pillar: photovoltaic learning curves, second-order effects, and the political economy of the transition.
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