i mean yeah the power lines struggle (today) to transport these amounts of power around, but that’s mostly due to mismanagement and not an inherent problem with the technology itself. building big power grids is technologically possible, and i dare say it’s not even so difficult. it just needs to get done, which till today didn’t happen because there was simply no political will to invest into the grid.
it’s a complex problem. often, it seems to me, when investments are done, they’re investments into the wrong things. Like when germany was about to donate $10 billion to Intel (which fortunately was cancelled/(indefinitely?) delayed).
Like, it is utterly predictable that the cost of electricity will fall and eventually be significantly cheaper than fossil fuels. It makes utter economic sense to research into electrifying large-scale industrial processes including steel and cement production, yet from what i can tell these research areas are completely dormant. I can already tell the news of 2030 when the rest of the world will say that China is far ahead in electrifying these large-scale industrial processes, and everybody else has to catch up.
i mean yeah the power lines struggle (today) to transport these amounts of power around, but that’s mostly due to mismanagement and not an inherent problem with the technology itself. building big power grids is technologically possible, and i dare say it’s not even so difficult. it just needs to get done, which till today didn’t happen because there was simply no political will to invest into the grid.
it’s a complex problem. often, it seems to me, when investments are done, they’re investments into the wrong things. Like when germany was about to donate $10 billion to Intel (which fortunately was cancelled/(indefinitely?) delayed).
Like, it is utterly predictable that the cost of electricity will fall and eventually be significantly cheaper than fossil fuels. It makes utter economic sense to research into electrifying large-scale industrial processes including steel and cement production, yet from what i can tell these research areas are completely dormant. I can already tell the news of 2030 when the rest of the world will say that China is far ahead in electrifying these large-scale industrial processes, and everybody else has to catch up.