 When I was younger - pre 2008 - I went to a seminar in the middle east.<p>It was about the future of global energy demand. The person giving the presentation had this graphs - all they could see was growth in global oil and gas demand.<p>During the seminar I asked one of the presenter about global warming, and how they hope to tackle it.<p>At least their was no global warming denial but it was unfathomable to them that something like solar could even compete with energy generation using natural gas and oil.<p>Of-course even I knew back then that solar will not be able to compete - even if solar could be cheapened - it wasn&#x27;t like these producers had razor thin margins.<p>A decade later - how things have changed.