Heating and electric vehicles are in fact the perfect example of the phenomenon I’m describing. Already today, it would be more efficient to heat your home wit

Heating and electric vehicles are in fact the perfect example of the phenomenon I’m describing. Already today, it would be more efficient to heat your home with a heat pump powered by a natural gas generation station, than to burn that same gas for heat directly. Already today, it’s more efficient to convert fossil fuel into electricity and charge an electric car, than to burn that fuel in the engine. There are high barriers of technology, scalability, and economics to overcome to make this transition happen, and if we had built a lot more nuclear in the 80s and 90s those barriers would still be nearly as high.