alt Hacker NewsYeah. Would’ve been cool if it was more economical now because of the Iran war, I’d actually have been surprised.
The demand for energy is the only thing we can be sure will grow.
Is the conduit batteries or gas turbines, who knows.
There’s still a fuckton of oil in the world, imo there’s still giant undiscovered reserves in the Arctic and Canada in general
If you’ve got interesting reads on gas vs green/battery in 2026 post Iran war feel free to post below
I saw a seemingly credible prediction from an energy analyst that global energy use would fall over the next five years. The rationale being that electrification can use less energy for the same work because heat pumps, EVs, etc are more efficient. Just pumping and refining oil is a huge sink of energy that disappears as more things become electrified.
The popular number is that every 18 months, China was destroying 1 million BPD demand.