Energy 101

Advances in our understanding of energy have produced unparalleled transformations of society, as exemplified by James Watt’s steam engine and the discovery of oil and its use as a fuel. If you wanted to know just the 10 most important ideas about energy, what would they be?  Physicists and economists would no doubt debate the 10 most important implications of energy for their respective disciplines; carving just 10 principles out across all fields means that important ideas will be left out. Nonetheless, the link between energy and human well-being is so deep and so compelling that a list of core principles forms the seed for important discussion and debate.