Of course. My issue is that there seems to be no serious acceptance of this reality and, therefore, a strong political push to address it. All we talk about are the wonders of electric-everything, as if power will magically appear from somewhere.
Gradual adoption is conceptually easy to understand, except that in certain places it will not take much for gradual adoption to reach a threshold that will lead to a painful reality. Speaking in terms of Southern California, it doesn't take much for a city like Los Angeles to create a power availability/grid crisis. We've already been there multiple times.
The issue with reliable (strong emphasis on that term) power generation is that, in the US, it takes decades and much red tape to address it. In other words, cart before the horse: We can't afford to materially increase demand without a solid preexisting plan to also materially increase supply ahead of demand. The two need to be out of phase, with power generation build-up happening first.
Gradual adoption is conceptually easy to understand, except that in certain places it will not take much for gradual adoption to reach a threshold that will lead to a painful reality. Speaking in terms of Southern California, it doesn't take much for a city like Los Angeles to create a power availability/grid crisis. We've already been there multiple times.
The issue with reliable (strong emphasis on that term) power generation is that, in the US, it takes decades and much red tape to address it. In other words, cart before the horse: We can't afford to materially increase demand without a solid preexisting plan to also materially increase supply ahead of demand. The two need to be out of phase, with power generation build-up happening first.