6. How do you project yourself into the future?

6.1 A brief history of energy in transport

Four main lessons can be drawn from the history of energy in transport.

The first lesson is that, until recently (1880), the horse played an important role. Apart from the limits of its use over long distances, this animal was replaced by the tramway when its urine and excrement posed insurmountable problems in big cities.

The second lesson is that transition can be very rapid. Twenty years after the aforementioned problems (diphtheria epidemics), in 1902 in the USA, there were 5 billion passenger journeys on 35,000 km of...