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Our processing speed is way up, but I believe our cost of energy has more or less not grown substantially.

In fact, with proper economic cost accounting like externalities as we try to deal with global warming, costs are going up.

Solar/wind are gradually starting to improve things in meaningful ways but they are a fundamentally different grid design.

Perhaps a modular LFTR reactor design can beat what Solar/Wind will settle at on an EROEI measure once solar/wind are out of their main economies of scale and techonological development curves.

But what we are entering for the next century is clearly one of resource limitations, and working much harder to more efficiently use them.