Talk by Prof. Dr. Andrew Grimshaw, Lancium Compute, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia.

Every MWh of electricity produced in the US today leads, on average, to 0.7 metric tons of CO2 emissions. That's the bad news; The good news is that renewable, carbon-neutral generation is now the least expensive means to produce electricity in the world. This has led to the development of tens of gigawatts of wind and solar capacity in the US. In West Texas alone, there is now so much excess power that wind and solar resources are often curtailed, leaving terawatt-hours of potential power unused.    
 
In short, generating sufficient power with renewables is no longer the problem. Instead, the problem is leveraging this power

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