What? 20% in 50 years is aggressive? California is already at 18% now and will most likely reach near 100% by 2035 (12 years from now). https://electrek.co/2022/10/27/electric-cars-reach-new-car-sales-california-compare-us/
Grid hasn't seen any extra burden because solar has kept up and the cars drive when the sun doesn't shine because they have batteries. I have solar and a pure electric + PIH car and haven't burdened PG&E in any way.
Edit: Norway is at 79% electric cars and will reach 100% in 2025 (less than 3 years from now) Norway – the EV capital of the world (visitnorway.com)
To augment what Dahobbs wrote, here is data from energy.gov
Lot of solar popping up all over US over this year.
Lot of coal being retired.
Share of renewables is rising.
Solar was nearly half of new electric generation capacity last year.
More cars are going electric.
Battery storage capacity is going to increase a lot.
and so on and so forth.
UT (along with 4 other universities) released a detailed study regarding the potential for geothermal energy in Texas and leveraging O&G expertise for tapping it. Pretty rosy outlook.
https://energy.utexas.edu/research/geothermal-texas
Why? The runner has full possession of the ball before he approaches the goal line. The WR (just like any other player) has to have full possession before we start counting yards and ball location.
Edit: Didn't read your post before replying. Everyone had HMT and I remember by dad had a Citizen watch.
Their website looks like it is stuck in 1990s too. Official Web Site of HMT Watches by HMT Limited | Buy online
Thanks Satya. I know absolutely nothing about watches except that there is a pricy watch called Rolex. The only time I have worn a watch (besides Apple watch now) was during my undergrad days in India (good old HMT). This question was for gifting a watch to a relative.
Once two of my friends and I were texting and choosing a common hotel in LAX. We all selected a single hotel and same type of a room but couple of us were a few seconds faster than the third one because the third one's price was about 15% higher. For the software, two purchases within seconds showed a sharp demand and raised the price for the third one.
Solar and wind are cheap (cheapest?), easily deployable and can be scaled from a power plant to powering a calculator. The only thing needed is storage, which is incrementally improving. If some of the many battery alternatives for large energy storage become mainstream, all other energy options become mostly strategic and for ancillary reasons rather than economic ones.