We can electrify everything

Or nearly everything.

“Of course we can electrify everything… we already use electrolysers to make ammonia. We can electrify steelmaking. There are multiple groups doing electro-chemical pathways to steel… We can electrify all the vehicles. Even the big trucks are going electric… There are synthetic biology pathways to turn electricity into proteins. It’s not inconceivable that we will electrify a hell of a lot of food. Electrifying a combine harvester might be hard, but we might just have many small combine harvesters instead of one huge one.

”If you take a tiny bit of creativity you can electrify everything.”

Saul Griffith,
founder of Rewiring America, and Rewiring Australia, talking to Robert Llewellyn on the Fully Charged Show Podcast.

Also: The big fossil fuel companies tend to fund the political parties that are more willing to employ disinformation and misinformation, so another benefit of reducing our dependence on oil could be healthier politics. At least for a while.

Elsewhere

Reform Is the Political Arm of the Fossil Fuel Industry