Well, at least we here on the Diner have the ability of your average 5 year old to make common fucking sense predictions like this. I've been writing for years now that pushing enough power across the grid for the projected All-EV transportation fleet was unachievable, and I wasn't even concerning myself at the time with AI, Data Centers, Crypto Mining and heating homes with electricity, which has long been considered too ipractical and expensive in Northern climates. Only in southern states were McMansions built with just electric heat until just recently. Since all these additional loads have been added, I redoubled my claims it was absurd. Does anybody listen to me? Of course not, I'm not a Tech Billionaire or Oil Industry shill.
Now, this writer from The Spectator is finally standing up an article saying how absurd this is, but WHERE THE FUCK has he been for the last 5 years, and where has TS or Wired or Scientific American been? Where has anyone from the Energy Industry been or politicians writing laws mandating transition to electric power been? The Energy industry is loaded with jackasses with Ph.Ds telling us there's power aplenty if we just drill baby drill, but they don't have enough CFS to know you can't deliver the power without the grid infrastructure. See, that's not their department. To paraphrase Tom Lehrer and Werner Von Braun, "Vonce zee Oil comes up, I don't care how eeet goes round, zat's not my department says Werner Von Braun"
So now they're going to frantically try to drop micro nukes at every data center to power it, and at every Truckstop to charge up the big rigs. Except of course there's so far not even ONE of these micro nukes currently functioning ANYWHERE in the FSoA. Microsoft will be given a blanket approval to self regulate their own electricity production, because of course the are such responsible citizens looking only to improve the lives of all their customers.
It's all so laughably incompetent it makes the Keystone Kops seem like solid police work in comparison. Regardless of what they try to do, there simply is no way they can meet the numbers and timeline they set. Failure is baked in the cake.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/going-electric-requires-electricity-who-knew/
Going electric requires electricity. Who knew?
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