Terry in Austin
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Thu Feb-25-10 06:48 PM
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19. The U.S. will need electricity in 2034? |
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Who knew? Electricity is so 20th century...
The finer points of mule breeding is probably more pertinent for 2034. That and explaining what this "U.S." thing was.
Seriously, though, these kinds of articles always seem to assume a straight-line extrapolation of familiar trends and conditions -- not a very safe (or interesting) thing to assume, given that the fossil-fuel props are about to be kicked out from under our industrial-age arrangements.
I'm sure there will be people harvesting solar and wind and bio energy on a local scale, but it's also very likely that "electric utility CEO" will be another term that needs explaining in 2034.
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