If you look at the second-to-last chart, energy production was growing exponentially 1950–73, then about linearly 1973–2005, and then not growing at all after that.
Good point! I feel like I have to squint a bit to see it, but that’s how exponentials sometimes look early on.
Yeah, I had to pull the data into a spreadsheet and look at the annual absolute and percent increase
If you look at the second-to-last chart, energy production was growing exponentially 1950–73, then about linearly 1973–2005, and then not growing at all after that.
Good point! I feel like I have to squint a bit to see it, but that’s how exponentials sometimes look early on.
Yeah, I had to pull the data into a spreadsheet and look at the annual absolute and percent increase