I am fully convinced of the need to electrify everything. One of the things we're going to have to do on the way to that is understand electricity, batteries, grids etc. Intuitively. An, probably, at a societal level. ie where we get to a point where we're not surprised by things.
Some things we're going to have to learn not to be surprised by:
There might be a 10-year ban on building new houses in West London because the grid won't be able to cope - because all the capacity is used up by data centres along the M4.
London is running out of electricity capacity because it's all being sucked up by data centres. Things are getting so bad that housebuilders in west London have been told they can't build new homes https://t.co/GVebb1vtaA pic.twitter.com/haBaP5breC
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) July 28, 2022
Last week the UK bought small amounts of electricity from Belgium at 5,000% of the usual rate in order to prevent power cuts in the South East.
Makita make a battery-powered coffee brewer and a battery-powered kettle. They seem slightly pointless. But they illustrate vividly how much energy it takes to boil water. It's probably a side effect of the global battery-moated customer retention businesses that is power tools.