electrification is here.
But electrification of some of these other sectors would help.
Board related to electrification of the Port of Oakland.
bankrupt ourselves putting the electrification grid in place.
If you get electrification , you can maybe study at night and so on.
So with rural electrification , at what point are households rich enough to be able to afford appliances where, all of a sudden, an electricity connection
I think electrification is the one that does work, and was very pleased that just yesterday was it?
But it's around electrification , and new cars, and train control systems that make it work.
The Rural Electrification Administration becomes remarkably important for spreading American electrification much further.
from FDR's rural electrification was in Western Ohio, in 1935, a little town called Miami, Ohio-- actually,
One is transportation electrification is going to probably be driven most by the fact that electric cars are essentially coal burners.
in electric vehicles the electrification of our transportation system it's another aspect of creating jobs also
And I'll say-- I mentioned rural electrification , but I can cite multiple other projects I've worked on where we went in with high hopes
And part of the push for electrification is not so you can say, I drive a Tesla, so nothing comes out my tailpipe.
We are also looking at the electrification of our municipal fleet as well.
became a redundant technology because of electrification .
Google has been very active on the electrification of transportation and I think it's a very good idea, because if people drive cars on electricity, on batteries instead of oil,
And I believe that we will see electrification , but the question is: what's gonna happen in the next 20 years before we see electric vehicles in very large numbers?
We wrote a paper on exactly this issue with electrification saying, wait a minute.
But for instance, I mentioned the rural electrification project in Kenya.
to a position where we can address these larger things like the electrification of grids and things?
And yet-- Andy, your example about electrification -- it took 50 years to disseminate the effects of electrification through society in a broad way.
So one particular project that I've worked on that has that kind of feature is work on rural electrification , also in Kenya, where I've done a lot of my research.
So Kenya was an early adopter, trying to push out rural electrification .
It happened about a century later, with internal combustion and electrification and indoor plumbing, which is massively valuable.
And there's Tamworth Station in Staffordshire, which was being rebuilt as part of an electrification scheme going up to the north.
And it knew what it would do if it had a bit more money, more electrification especially, reopening some old lines, things like that.
That the pause, as it was called on some of the electrification projects on the main lines, that's been unpaused.
But if I could just talk about one little thing, which was rural electrification .
So that's one thing to remember about the electrification of transportation.
magnification like God damn it it's one of our hydroplants okay we have actually provided electrification to the Taliban
at the time and what happened was FDR said well let's do the uh let's do rural electrification and we knew it was going
In 1870, 150 years ago, you know, electric lighting and the electrification of the economy, that was just a glimmer in Thomas Edison's eye.
So starting about 12, 13 years ago, the government of Kenya launched a major rural electrification effort.
And so in contrast to what happened in Kenya, the US had a big rural electrification campaign about a century ago in the 1930s during the New Deal.
The route itself is a very early Victorian line, but everything else is new-- trains, track, electrification , architecture, signage, the lot.
And Lenin answers, communism, communism is power to the workers' councils, the Soviets, plus electrification of the entire country.
Well, Roosevelt, when he came to power in the 1930s and had this gigantic government apparatus, one aspect of it was the REA, the Rural Electrification Administration.