The electric grid is a stellar achievement of civilization.  Without the grid, modern civilization would collapse.  In the U.S., thousands of electric generating plants are interconnected by thousands of miles of transmission lines.  Electricity is generated as it is consumed. These days, there is a lot of tampering with the electric grid.  People who wouldn’t know a generator from a turbine are suddenly making no small plans to reform it.  We now have good electricity and bad electricity.  Good electricity is generated without emitting carbon dioxide (CO2).  But that rule is not rigid, because nuclear electricity, and hydro electricity, if it involves a dam, are both bad electricity, even though they don’t emit CO2. I’m not making this up. I’m repeating the California legal definition of renewable electricity. Ironically, the evidence is overwhelming that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is highly beneficial.  CO2...(Read Full Article)