Wright's Law
The empirical law that manufactured products fall in cost by a consistent percentage with each doubling of cumulative production. The book uses it to argue that manufactured energy will keep getting cheaper while extractive energy will not.
The empirical observation that the cost of a manufactured product falls by a consistent percentage with each doubling of cumulative production. The book uses Wright's Law to argue that manufactured energy (solar, batteries, modular nuclear) is on falling cost curves while extractive energy (oil, gas, coal) is not, and that the cost crossover between the two categories is therefore mechanical rather than political.
First introduced in: Chapter 2