Pretty trivial assumption to make, just like it is easy to assume that whilst sea based creatures might be intelligent you won’t have a technological society developing under water.
Ofc it’s trivial to make, renewable sources are far more complicated than simple chemistry, wood, charcoal, coal and eventually petroleum require far fewer technological leaps than renewables.
Again, only if you go down the exact path we did instead of using way less energy for completely different reasons and building from there. E.g. discovering solar power strictly for agricultural reasons and discovering electrical storage then other uses of electricity from there.
People who can’t envision the above or the multitude of other ways to get to electricity without it being transpiration focused lack imagination.
I don’t think it’s due to lack of imagination at all… and again you are skipping a lot of steps you are putting solar cells and high energy density batteries before the steam engine or even the forge.
Describe me a basic evolutionary path that leads to this even if it’s not the path of least resistance.
No I’m not. You can gather that light turns e.g. Liquids into vapor and slowly build systems from there. You are so biased looking at todays tech you can’t even step back and picture alternative ways to find electricity. It’s a lack of imagination full stop.
You are still jumping to semi conductors before the steam engine and into optic before the forge…
I’m really not biased at all, there is a difference between being open minded and just not taking into account basic factors for the sake of pretending to be one.
Any civilization will discover fire first, fire is easy and is needed to bootstrap any technological civilization.
