from a piece on an original economist. This struck me in middle ATD meanings. Tesla and the energy stuff.....

[Mark Kohut]

Peshine Smith placed Man’s harnessing of Nature’s energy as the main moving
force of the economy.[v]
<https://medium.com/iipp-blog/the-nobel-prize-winner-that-predicted-a-crisis-between-nature-and-capital-a174e6a774d3#_edn5>
To
Peshine Smith, Nature’s resources, especially her energy resources, have an
infinite potential, in contrast to Malthusianism, Soddy, and part of
ecological economics. In a sense Peshine Smith kept alive the spirit of the
Renaissance and of Man’s undeveloped potentials.