Saul Griffith
Australian-American engineer and inventor; founded Otherlab and co-founded Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, which advocate household electrification. Author of Electrify (2021) and The Big Switch (2022); writes the Energy & Stuff newsletter.
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Their wordsCommodification of code might just be the democratization of code.
↗Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition)energyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsMy opinion is that we will find enormous code efficiencies and the data centre build-out will be far, far smaller than the hyperventilating stock boosters say, which will put a cap on the resources it will use.
↗Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition)energyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsFor commodities like iron, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, copper, nickel, and others, we are going to need prolifically cheap (like 2-3c/kWh) electricity to make them at the same prices they can be made with fossil fuels.
↗Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition)energyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsIt is a story about Australia having built a tax regime that allows the gas industry to become (in the polite phrasing of the Australian Taxation Office) a "systemic non-payer."
↗$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us.energyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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The warming impact of LNG over twenty years is roughly equivalent to coal at 3% methane leakage.
Their wordsAt 3% leakage, the warming impact of LNG over twenty years is roughly equivalent to coal.
↗$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us.energyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe could electrify the entire light-vehicle fleet on properly taxed gas in under a decade.
↗$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us.energyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
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Their wordsWe should electrify our end uses instead - it would save us $135m a day.
↗The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything.energyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsEvery fossil flow has a clean substitute we know how to build.
↗The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything.energyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe economic case for electrifying the Australian car fleet is undebatable.
↗The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything.energyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIn this context, middle powers - states large enough to matter, yet too small to dominate - face a choice: drift in a unipolar petro-legacy order, become satellites of a superpower bloc, or forge a new industrial architecture that neutralises over-reliance on any single geopolitical pole.
↗Pax Electricanaenergyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe molecules-to-electrons transition in heavy industry requires not just cheap electricity but new processes, new equipment, new supply chains, and patient capital willing to back first-of-a-kind plants and long and uncertain capital cycles.
↗Pax Electricanaenergyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe trade of the future isn't tankers of LNG. It's shiploads of green iron and aluminium and lithium (and ammonia and copper and ...) - molecules that carry clean electrons inside them.
↗Pax Electricanaenergyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsWe know that electrification is the answer to the great majority of our carbon emissions.
↗Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025!energyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025!energyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025!energyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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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.
↗Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodallenergyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodallenergyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodallenergyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece