"Now this decoupling must accelerate" says the article's subtitle. What is generally missed in this kind of discussions is how much better, both in kind and in

"Now this decoupling must accelerate" says the article's subtitle. What is generally missed in this kind of discussions is how much better, both in kind and in degree, electricity is as an interface to power than natural gas, petroleum, biomass, and so forth. The "win" is not that once you have everything electric you won't need to burn all these irreproducible resources, but the win is that the consumer now operates with a more "generic" interface, electricity, and is "decoupled" from the burning itself, think of "Burning as a Service" instead of "Self-Burning". And maybe, in some kind of future, we will be able to produce electricity without burning at all: maybe fusion, maybe arrays of solar panels in GEO [1] beaming power to Terra [2], maybe some kind of bacteria eating all the plastic we've been landfilling [3], who knows. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit [2] https://emrod.energy/emrod-partners-with-airbus-and-the-european-space-agency-for-demonstration https://emrod.energy/emrod-partners-with-airbus-and-the-euro... [3] https://elifesciences.org/digests/43959/generating-electricity-from-bacteria https://elifesciences.org/digests/43959/generating-electrici...