This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor.

Electricity. I welcome Bud Weinstein, retired associate director of the McGuire Energy Institute at SMU,

Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas and a fellow of Good Enough College in London,

writing at Real Clear Energy about electricity.

Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, to today. There was never enough of it. And now, but a very good

evening to you, I very much appreciate learning a new word, terawatts. You report in your column

that right now we consume 4,000 terawatts per year in the United States.

That's 4 trillion, 4,000 trillion watts.

That's a big number.

That's a big number.

And that runs us right now, although every once in a while a tree falls on the power lines out here at Connecticut and I go to my backup.

However, what we need in the future is humbling.

What's happened, Bud?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

I think the basic problem is an emerging disparity, if you will, between the demand for electricity and the available supply.

As we discussed on your program before, the demand for electricity has been growing very rapidly, particularly in the last couple of years.

It's up about 8% over the last five years.

The Department of Energy sees demand increasing as we see more and more reshoring.

We build more factories in the United States.

Electric vehicles, a part of the picture.

Hydrogen uses a tremendous amount of juice.

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