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The LCOE for wind and solar certainly make it inevitable at this point.

I just wonder if there wasn't heavy subsidies for fossil fuel, direct or otherwise (and I mean things like the military budget which exists, above all for oil resource control and securing oil shipping) what battery, solar, and of course wind could be at if they started in the 1950s with aggressive research.

Wind blades are just fiberglass (invented 1932), silicon based solar panels might not be economical without the CPU fab industry, but perovskites and all the other kinds? Could the salt water battery coming online next year been done in 1950s or 1960s tech? Who knows.

Of course some of that is "perfect hindsight". But the notion that oil companies haven't gotten substantial subsidies and meddled in energy policy is not an extreme idea.