theory, we could generate 2,000 gigawatts from it—more than enough to meet our current needs.14 But if we’re going to take advantage of this potential, we’ll…

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load shifting is going to have a significant impact, we’ll need some changes in policy as well as some technological advances. Utility companies will have to update the price of electricity throughout the day to account for shifts in supply and demand, for instance, and your water heater and electric car will have to be…

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This includes transmission lines for wind and solar, charging stations for electric vehicles, and pipelines for…

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For pretty much all other materials, the first thing we need is plenty of reliable clean electricity. Electricity already accounts for about a quarter of all the energy used by the manufacturing sector worldwide; to power all these industrial processes, we need to both deploy the clean energy technology we already have and develop breakthroughs tha