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I’m not sure why this means we can’t switch away from fossil fuels for energy production? Sure, we may have to fix distribution of electricity in some places, b

• paganel 5y ago
  > I’m not sure why this means we can’t switch away from fossil fuels for energy production? Because the network won't hold the new extra energy consumption. Like I also said, this problem is not obvious enough for people who live in affluent and mostly populous communities (like most of us here, or like the stakeholders from the article), hence why it's not discussed that often in relation to the switch to "green energy". There was something of try to address this in the first (or second? not sure) Obama mandate, the whole "smart grid"thing, of which I've heard not that much lately, and over here in Europe Merkel tried something similar in Germany in late '00s - early 2010s but she failed spectacularly.
  • yunohn 5y ago
    Obviously, the transition to electric won't be overnight. The best way to handle this is to improve the grid simultaneously, which is what most countries are doing regardless.