Vaclav Smil has written a couple books on energy; I haven’t read them yet but probably Energy and Civilization: A History is the most relevant?
Our World in Data has a lot of research on energy, see e.g. this chart of GDP per capita vs. energy use that shows a strong correlation (the relationship is reciprocal, IMO).
Eli Dourado and Austin Vernon have an article on energy superabundance—what could we do in the future with lots more energy?
I enjoyed Richard Rhodes’s Energy: A Human History.
Vaclav Smil has written a couple books on energy; I haven’t read them yet but probably Energy and Civilization: A History is the most relevant?
Our World in Data has a lot of research on energy, see e.g. this chart of GDP per capita vs. energy use that shows a strong correlation (the relationship is reciprocal, IMO).
Eli Dourado and Austin Vernon have an article on energy superabundance—what could we do in the future with lots more energy?
See also the intro to this post of mine on nuclear.
Thanks!