Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025!

Saul Griffith · 7 Nov 2025

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Electrification is the answer to the vast majority of carbon emissions.

Their wordsWe know that electrification is the answer to the great majority of our carbon emissions.
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Electrification of cars, homes, and small businesses can provide immediate climate emissions reductions.

Their wordsElectrification of our cars, homes, and small businesses are the things that can bring immediate climate emissions reductions while we wait for the last few pieces of the industrial decarbonization (again mostly through electrification) to come into being.
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It will be economic to overbuild solar on rooftops, carparks, and various other structures.

Their wordsIt will be economic to overbuild solar, rooftops, carparks, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, agrovoltaics, agricultural (barn) rooftops.

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