When I was younger - pre 2008 - I went to a seminar in the middle east. It was about the future of global energy demand. The person giving the presentation had

When I was younger - pre 2008 - I went to a seminar in the middle east. It was about the future of global energy demand. The person giving the presentation had this graphs - all they could see was growth in global oil and gas demand. During the seminar I asked one of the presenter about global warming, and how they hope to tackle it. At least their was no global warming denial but it was unfathomable to them that something like solar could even compete with energy generation using natural gas and oil. Of-course even I knew back then that solar will not be able to compete - even if solar could be cheapened - it wasn't like these producers had razor thin margins. A decade later - how things have changed.