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Hah yeah that reminds me of the IBM CEO in 1943 saying "there's a world demand for maybe 5 computers" because he couldn't fathom what could be done with them. it was a pretty great article overall, discussing how the same was true for solar ... nobody could imagine it powering the world just 20 years ago.
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth