The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy https://a.co/d/6PPl61m

this is a great book in my opinion 

it talks about how you can use more and more energy to make energy cleaner and more useful 

there are many many barrels of oil represented in the super precise clean energy of a laser that's used for eye surgery for example 

if we had enough energy we could burn coal in a clean way that's actually carbon negative, not that that would make economic sense per se