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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It

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This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]

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The Second War of Currents: How DC Is Quietly Taking Over

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Electricity has been shaped by two rival ideas that have taken turns defining our world. Alternating current, or AC, became the backbone of industrial civilization, while direct current, or DC, quietly survived in the background. The story of how AC first won, and how DC is now winning again, is … [continued]

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Tesla Owners’ Relationship with Repairs is … Complicated

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The website American Trucks has conducted some research on vehicle repairs, focusing in particular on a kind of DIY repair revolution. As seems to be the case lately, some of the more interesting findings concern Tesla. First of all, the standout point regarding Tesla is probably that it ranks 3rd … [continued]

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Why Lots Of Rabbits Have To Be Harnessed To Keep Grid Clocks Aligned

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The UK now has an active market for grid inertia, marking a significant step toward ensuring stability in an electricity grid increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable energy sources. The first successful bidder to provide this inertia service was a notably straightforward yet effective technology: an electric motor spinning a massive … [continued]

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