It took decades to develop, comercialize lithium batteries, starting in 1970s. Only after 2016 we started to see a large growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

It took decades to develop, comercialize lithium batteries, starting in 1970s. Only after 2016 we started to see a large growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat... Cheap gas has displaced lot of coal in US, staring from 2007, fracking gas revolution. In China not much. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?time=2001..latest&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?t... Currently, the Iran energy squeeze is not much felt in the west, just slight increase in prices. It would take real pain, something like 1973 oil crisis, for west to reconsider nuclear power generation.