You here a lot about clean energy and how important it is to convert to a society totally reliant on electricity instead of fossil fuels. It sounds like a great idea and anything related to the subject grabs a lot of publicity. The truth of the matter simply isn't as easy or cost effective as politicians make it sound. As it stands today America's power infrastructure is nowhere close to being able to handle the task. It's going to take decades and billions of dollars to get things up to snuff. If you were to plug in a thousand electric cars at night all at the same time when the demand for energy is beginning to rise as families settle down for dinner transformers would begin to explode all over the place.
The cost on a homeowner to get their home ready to full electric? It's estimated that on the east coast, where homes are generally heated by sources that emit that nasty carbon, it will cost $25,000 to $35,000.
Simply put, we just aren't ready yet.
From Tipping Point New Mexico
On Tipping Point we regularly cover energy issues, but here and elsewhere the pipelines, power lines, and critical and complicated ways in which energy resources are shipped around the globe and to customers is ignored.
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