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user-inactivated  ·  3909 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Carbon Crash, Solar Dawn

Is it weak? Is the electrical infrastructure and its carrying capacity uniform nationwide relative to current demand? I don't know what the numbers are, but it seems reasonable to presume that on a hot summer night in southern California demand might not fall to far from capacity now.

And given that our entire economy, rightly or wrongly, is predicated on a premise of growth one tends to expect electrical demand to follow an upward trajectory even in an absence of electric vehicles - assuming: the economy itself is healthy and no alternative form of energy has displaced electricity's share of the energy market.

that in turn suggests that anywhere where the electrical grid is operating during any part of the year at peak capacity, an increase in demand represents a problem in demand of a solution.

I don't dispute that those solutions do exist, simply whether or not they are already in place. The premise of the article above was that fossil fuels had reached a tipping point, and the author makes a strong case regarding coal - but there remain significant sources of carbon from fossil fuels that in my view have yet to see a down turn in demand of any meaningful significance.