couldn't have people getting electric power without paying Him or someone like him.
I have often wondered about the stories of people inventing a cheaper / greener car battery in the last 100 years, only to sell it to a big battery maker, to have the patent shoved into a filing cabinet as being too expensive to tool up.......
And now we have celphones lasting weeks on new battery technologies. OK the quiescent current is better, but the talk time is also a lot better.