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Jake Auchincloss: “The grid is not good at storing energy either across time…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on AI energy equation, guardrails and competitiveness

Published | Video Starts at 08:12

We just don't have enough sources of Electrons or sources of energy to move the electrons more precisely. It is delays, takes too long to build the stuff that we need. And it's dumbness. The grid is not good at storing energy either across time with batteries or across space with interconnectivity. And so any energy policy needs to address all three of those things. We need to put new energy sources onto the grid. I've put forward bills for super hot rock, geothermal for example. (08:12–08:20)

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Asserts that the energy grid lacks effective storage capabilities.

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