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Their wordsMaybe it isn't all as insane as it sounds, on current trends the grid can grow sufficiently to accomodate all of these loads and some residential electrification as well, and do so at a rate of growth only about half of that which was seen between 1975 and 2000.
Their wordsThese un-necessary soft costs account for the 7.5X difference in cost, and is a big part of why Americans can't have cheap electricity yet.
Their wordsI believe it is useful, but in my work using it for data processing, coding, research, and a little for fun, it still hallucinates and makes things up, doesn't actually understand things - even simple things like geometry.
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