Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

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3. So we should have passed regulations to dispose of landlines.

Phase them out by 1995. Because in 1980 we believed that something better would come along.

I was in a church long ago. It was a splinter of a large church that had taught that Jesus would return in '72. They believed. And they made what they realized were foolish choices based on their beliefs. Their choices hurt them--and their kids.

Let's not make the same mistake. We hope for better but our beliefs should be rooted in fairly solid science, not, "I believe."

"It's hard, doesn't mean it can't be done" doesn't entail "we believe, therefore it'll be done--and in the time frame we believe."

Not my belief system.