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Electrification, not renewables, is the problem to solve that requires major thinking outside the box. Your faster horses won't get us there.



The compromise is going beyond electrification. You need large scale energy storage or baseload power, plus the needs of industry (aka the hard decarbonization sector). This cannot be solved purely by electrification. People who have thought hard about the problem have realized this. Unfortunately, quite a few people are trapping in an obsession with ideological purity and haven't figured it out. Breaking this obsession has basically no negative consequences, as it simply gives you a real path to zero emissions.




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