My father in law (prior to his passing) worked for the National Science Foundation and his job was to investigate grant fraud like this. Apparently it happens all the time.

For those that haven’t seen it, enjoy this masterpiece

Even his campaign thinks so. It was so bad they pulled him offstage before the final question about Project 2025 could be asked.

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Point of sale companies like Clover charge a fee and the credit card company gets a cut of that. The rest is for the point of sale’s services.

Yes, it works for me

How is this possible? One word — efficiency. Our electric appliances have gotten so much more efficient.

The magic of efficiency could and hopefully will continue this 20-year miracle of keeping electricity consumption flat even while we add lots of new loads, as there is so much more low hanging fruit to be picked. LEDs still need to finish their market domination, and heat pumps are only just getting started and will save oodles of energy for space and water heating and even clothes drying. Building codes are continuously improving, as are appliance standards, meaning our homes and buildings and everything that uses energy in them, are constantly becoming more efficient (with no compromise in performance).

This all adds up. With the 1% that electricity production declined in 2023, we could have added something like another 10 million EVs to the grid last year and our overall electricity use would still have remained the same.