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There were very similar concerns about mobile bandwidth not long after the iPhone came out. Mobile carriers just built like crazy and handled it. No reason powe

• dotancohen 4y ago
  > No reason power companies can’t do the same thing. Nuclear power plants take over a decade - best case - to build.
  • mywittyname 4y ago
    But gas turbine power plants can take under a year to come online; even less when an existing plant expands capacity. Yeah, they still emit CO2, but it's a quick and cheap stop gap while waiting on green energy to replace them. It should be noted that the USA has a refining crisis looming. Our refinement capacity is stagnant/shrinking and it's substantially more difficult to build refineries than it is to build electricity generation. This is largely a problem that's "by design" that will act as the stick, if the carrots for the EV transition don't work. We basically have an artificial cap on the number of ICE vehicles that can be supplied with gasoline unless something changes.
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  • snowwrestler 4y ago
    It took wireless network providers over a decade to build out their capacity too. In fact they are still building today.