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[Episode #169] – Is the Energy Transition Feasible?

The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

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Is There an Analogue Between Development and Development?

Developing world countries may experience faster growth earlier on, but they're not going to achieve maybe the same maximum growth rate as developed countries that started earlier. So they accelerate through the beginning of the s curve faster, but they don't reach higher speeds. That was our finding with later faster you know,. i'm wondering if there's an analogue here to things we might be more familiar with, for example, the adoption of mobile phones. It's sort of a famous point in terms of s curve adoption rates that developing countries who did not have access to land line phones just sort of leaped straight to sell phones.

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