US DOE and the Edison Electric Institute have been cooperatively pursuing "all-electric everything" for decades. Much of their effort has been based on the fantasy that electric energy emerges from the customer meter at 100% efficiency, ignoring the ~70% energy losses which occur on the way to the meter. The 100% efficiency fantasy would not even become reality if all electricity was produced by wind and solar plus storage.
To get an idea were this was headed before Trump headed it off, see:
finally got around to reading the actual essay. very well done, ma'am, very well done.
Thanks, Barry!
Don't know if you saw this today. https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/environment/2025/04/04/coalition-request-for-hearing-on-palisades-nuclear-power-plant-restart-denied-covert-twp/82877669007/
I had not! That's probably the right decision. I am really curious to see if they can reasonably meet the timetable they've set out, though.
US DOE and the Edison Electric Institute have been cooperatively pursuing "all-electric everything" for decades. Much of their effort has been based on the fantasy that electric energy emerges from the customer meter at 100% efficiency, ignoring the ~70% energy losses which occur on the way to the meter. The 100% efficiency fantasy would not even become reality if all electricity was produced by wind and solar plus storage.
To get an idea were this was headed before Trump headed it off, see:
https://edreid.substack.com/p/decarbonizing-buildings
https://edreid.substack.com/p/decarbonizing-buildings-2
https://edreid.substack.com/p/decarbonizing-buildings-3
https://edreid.substack.com/p/home-sweet-decarbed-home
There will be a quiz. ;-)
Your "quiz" should be administered first to politicians at all levels of government.
;-)
Excellent! You're precisely right.