by Chris Mooney (Washington Post) … And all of it is powered by an array of solar and sometimes distant wind installations, which route electricity across the country thanks to a gargantuan network of power lines that triples the scale of the United States’ current transmission infrastructure. You see them the panels, the turbines, the lines everywhere you drive, everywhere you go.
By 2050, in President-elect Joe Biden’s vision of the country even more ambitious than what the Obama administration proposed the United States would no longer be putting greenhouse gases into the air. And for that to happen, it is likely that our world would have to look a lot like what was just described.