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adjejmxbdjdntoday at 3:33 AM1 replyview on HN

Electrification is a no brainer.

Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer.

Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobile, than to ship liquid gas to hundreds of thousands of gas stations all over or build pipes to send gaseous natural gas to every house.

Not only is it more efficient, as any abstracted system, it allows far more flexibility and resilience due to that flexibility.


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anon7000today at 4:26 AM

100%. Also, fossil fuel is a bit ridiculous compared to renewables because you have to spend a huge amount of effort to find a new resource patch, extract the fuel, ship it all over the planet… just to burn it and it’s gone forever. Not a sustainable system for our energy at all.