Energy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future

Abstract

In my talk today, I want to spend a little time at the beginning explaining my own personal odyssey concerning the future of energy, not to brag—indeed, you will soon see that I have been a complete failure—but to ask why anyone thinks we will respond to the apparent challenges now any better than we did in the 1970s when energy was, for a brief while, our obsession, and mine.