A lot of work here, good to see you are so focused on the connection between energy and economy.
Decoupling energy from economy is something debateable, as you've shown.
But decoupling energy from population growth, that would be something violating the laws of physics, so maybe a kind of miracle.
Yet, look at the utilities energy data of your country since around 2005, it is declining, no? It is in UK, I assume similarly it is in all developed countries.
Now look at the demographics data of your country, it is still going up, no?
In UK we are up about 7 million souls since around 2005, so a rise of 10% and yet utilities energy supply is down by 20%.
How is this possible?
The truth is that it isn't, what is actually happening is that people are generating their own power, from solar, which should be good for economy, yes?
Except it isn't so good if money is not issued on the product generated.
The effect then on money has to be inflation, because in reality, production is outstripping money supply.
As the product put to use continues to scale up, and no money is issued representing it, so money is becoming more and more representative of... nothing.
The value of this backlog of unmonetised solar product, acting physically and economically in the system in UK, since 2005 is 457Bn.
In 2022 alone, 50Bn was added.
In 2023, including the price increases for energy, it will be 160 Bn added.
As said, the effect on the value of our money is to devalue it, eventually to zero.
People in UK are struggling to maintain overheads, including all businesses, all government departments, our NHS, transportation, education, in fact everything which is not solar powered.
Of course utilities industry is in big trouble too, all because of inflation.
Grants are already being issued to businesses and people at the extreme ends of the problem.
The only solution to this is to issue free money representing the free Joules of solar put to use.
When that happens, a large portion of industry will cease, the part employing folk in bullshit jobs, defined by David Graeber. No-one who hates their job will continue doing work, because they won't have to.
The truth is we don't need those industries employing folk in bullshit jobs they hate.
Farmers who mostly love to work will be supplemented by many more in formerly bullshit industries, who always wanted to be farmers, who will work for love, not for necessity but because they get fulfilment from working to help humanity.
Same goes for folk in transportation, health, research of all kinds, care, hospitality, actually all the things we still need.
Not utilities energy.
Check it out for yourself.
I've done it for UK.
I'd love to see someone do it for the US.