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Why the Electrify Everything-Revolution Won’t Go as Planned
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One big goal of the effort to transition to more clean power is to electrify as much as humanly possible. The thinking goes that to really increase renewable energy use, more things in the real world will have to demand the electric power renewables provide. That means electric stoves and barbecue grills rather than natural gas versions, electric cars that replace internal combustion engines, and electric heat pumps and energy storage instead of fossil fuels and diesel generators.