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pfdietzyesterday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Vaclav Smil so wildly mispredicted the trajectory of renewables that his worldview should be taken with heavy skepticism.


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chermiyesterday at 7:43 PM

That's true of basically all economists' predictions of technology. But he does a lot more than state predictions, his numbers and breakdowns and decompositioba are valuable in themselves.