I <i>only</i> see energy use going up if we discover the ability to perform molecular assembly. If that occurs, yeah, energy use would skyrocket, but it would all hopefully be clean energy at that point.<p>Even if you were to replace everyone in manufacturing, construction, etc with robotics, and replace all ICE vehicles with electric vehicles, you wouldn&#x27;t see an enormous increase in energy use.<p>The US DOE showed several years ago that almost 80% of vehicles could move over to the electric grid with existing base load generation. I stand by my previous statement that developed country energy consumption has peaked.