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• Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy.
• If we consult history, we find that energy transitions are not new.
• Energy historian Vaclav Smil calculates past energy transitions have taken 50–75 years to ripple through societies.
• So can we learn anything from past energy transitions?

Energy shifts happen in fits and starts

• In fact, some countries relied on wood and charcoal throughout the 20th century – even as others were shifting from coal to oil.
• The English had used coal for domestic heating from the time of the Romans because it burned longer and had nearly double the energy intensity of wood.
• In North America, coal didn’t overtake wood until as late as 1884 – even as crude oil became more important.
• The drill was powered by a steam engine –  which may have been fired by wood.

Steam and muscle

• When they were first invented in 1712, steam engines converted just 2% of coal into useful energy.
• Even so, steam sped up early proto-industries such as textiles, print production and traditional manufacturing.
• Vaclav Smil has shown industrial waterwheels and turbines “competed successfully with steam engines for decades”.
• Locating steam engines in urban centres made it easier to concentrate and control workers, as well as overcoming worker walk-outs and machine breaking.
• That’s reminiscent of coal shovelers in the furnace-like stokeholes of steam ships being immersed in ice-baths on collapse, as historian On Barak has shown.

What does this mean for us?

• In fact, Smil argues the idea of the “industrial revolution” is misleading.
• They start as highly localised shifts, depending on available resources, before new technologies spreads along trade routes.
• But on the plus side, there are market forces now driving the shift to clean energy.
• These 4 charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind

• A stalwart presence in the Valley since 1980, SMIL is recognized as one of the leading radiology practices in the country.
• Last year, SMIL invested millions in equipment upgrades benefitting patient safety and comfort, reducing radiation dose, and increasing image quality.
• Guided by its mission to be leaders in medical imaging through Quality, Innovation and Service, SMIL looks to the future with an expansion in 2023.
• SMIL Southwest Medical Imaging is a physician-owned radiology practice in the Phoenix Metro area, providing patient-centric care to the Valley for over 40 years.

• SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imaging Endpoints (IE), the world's largest oncology-focused imaging CRO, announced today the addition of Brian Kelly as Vice President, Business Development & Marketing.
• Prior to joining Imaging Endpoints, Brian held global business development and marketing positions at several companies supporting central imaging for clinical trials.
• Prior to AG Mednet, Brian oversaw global sales and marketing for SYNARC (now Clario), previously the industry's largest imaging core laboratory.
• "I couldn't me more excited to join the outstanding team at Imaging Endpoints," said Brian Kelly, VP of Business Development & Marketing.

• SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imaging Endpoints (IE), based in Scottsdale, Arizona with eight offices in six countries, announced today the promotion of Jatinder Kaur to Chief Operating Officer (COO).Jatinder most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Imaging Endpoints, and has been with the Company for over eight years.
• Imaging Endpoints announced today the promotion of Jatinder Kaur to Chief Operating Officer.
• Under the leadership and direction of Jatinder Kaur, Imaging Endpoints is realizing its vision to Connect Imaging to the Cure() by customizing imaging for each clinical trial to optimize the opportunity to demonstrate efficacy.
• Imaging Endpoints (IE) is an imaging CRO that is passionately focused on its vision to Connect Imaging to the Cure.