But none of that energy is available to use. The only metric that matters is available energy. If all the energy you’re describing was available for use nobody

But none of that energy is available to use. The only metric that matters is available energy. If all the energy you’re describing was available for use nobody would be paying for energy and we’d never have huge power outages. Technological growth is luck and also likely limited. The zero sum nature of the economy comes from the context of a transaction. Transactions and exchanges are zero sum, technological growth is not. But increasing technology is both a combination of luck and arguably limited.