The conventional fuel industry continues to see the world from the golden days of hundred year-old monopolies and unlimited cheap fossils. That the grid itself is already changing into the power equivalent of the internet is beyond their capacity to fathom.

Sadly, it's likely to take another energy and/or climate shock or two before the people for whom The Economist is shilling realize that it's already a new day.

Then again, the ostensible magazine is not attempting to define reality. It is vicious propaganda, pure and simple.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin