My column up at Sustainable Business Oregon
Practically, it is hard to imagine a technology that wastes 2.2 kilowatt-hours for every single kilowatt-hour produced is surviving into the 22nd century. Let’s hope it doesn’t; it simply isn’t sustainable. We should be imagining that next century now — one without a crisscross labyrinth of ugly transmission lines, one with thousands of independently functioning renewable energy microgrids.
Time to start imagining the next century rather than sinking more money into the last century’s folly.
