Saul Griffith
Australian-American engineer and inventor; founded Otherlab and co-founded Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, which advocate household electrification. Author of Electrify (2021) and The Big Switch (2022); writes the Energy & Stuff newsletter.
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The commodification of code may result in the democratization of code.
Commodification of code might just be the democratization of code.
energyandstuff.substack.comSaid 20 Sept 2026This on korrents
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Australia's gas industry tax regime allows companies to become systemic non-payers.
It is a story about Australia having built a tax regime that allows the gas industry to become (in the polite phrasing of the Australian Taxation Office) a "systemic non-payer."
energyandstuff.substack.comSaid 5 May 2026This on korrents
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The commodification of code may result in the democratization of code.
Commodification of code might just be the democratization of code.
Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition) Said 20 Sept 2026
Data center expansion will be significantly smaller than some market optimists predict due to code efficiencies.
My opinion is that we will find enormous code efficiencies and the data centre build-out will be far, far smaller than the hyperventilating stock boosters say, which will put a cap on the resources it will use.
Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition) Said 20 Sept 2026
Producing commodities like iron, cement, and aluminium will require prolifically cheap electricity to remain price-competitive with fossil fuels.
For commodities like iron, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, copper, nickel, and others, we are going to need prolifically cheap (like 2-3c/kWh) electricity to make them at the same prices they can be made with fossil fuels.
Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition) Said 20 Sept 2026
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Australia's gas industry tax regime allows companies to become systemic non-payers.
It is a story about Australia having built a tax regime that allows the gas industry to become (in the polite phrasing of the Australian Taxation Office) a "systemic non-payer."
$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us. Said 5 May 2026
The warming impact of LNG over twenty years is roughly equivalent to coal at 3% methane leakage.
At 3% leakage, the warming impact of LNG over twenty years is roughly equivalent to coal.
$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us. Said 5 May 2026
Australia could electrify its entire light-vehicle fleet in under a decade using foregone gas revenue.
We could electrify the entire light-vehicle fleet on properly taxed gas in under a decade.
$46bN per year: What Australia squanders on gas revenues would easily decarbonize (and educate) us. Said 5 May 2026
Australia could save money by electrifying end uses instead of importing refined fuel.
We should electrify our end uses instead - it would save us $135m a day.
The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything. Said 4 May 2026
Every fossil fuel flow has a known clean substitute that can be built.
Every fossil flow has a clean substitute we know how to build.
The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything. Said 4 May 2026
The economic case for electrifying the Australian car fleet is undebatable.
The economic case for electrifying the Australian car fleet is undebatable.
The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything. Said 4 May 2026
The transition to heavy industry electrification requires new processes, equipment, and supply chains rather than just cheap electricity.
The molecules-to-electrons transition in heavy industry requires not just cheap electricity but new processes, new equipment, new supply chains, and patient capital willing to back first-of-a-kind plants and long and uncertain capital cycles.
Pax Electricana Said 19 Apr 2026
The future of global trade will shift from shipping fossil fuels to shipping materials with embodied clean energy.
The trade of the future isn't tankers of LNG. It's shiploads of green iron and aluminium and lithium (and ammonia and copper and ...) - molecules that carry clean electrons inside them.
Pax Electricana Said 19 Apr 2026
Middle powers can form a new industrial architecture to reduce reliance on single geopolitical poles through electrification.
In this context, middle powers - states large enough to matter, yet too small to dominate - face a choice: drift in a unipolar petro-legacy order, become satellites of a superpower bloc, or forge a new industrial architecture that neutralises over-reliance on any single geopolitical pole.
Pax Electricana Said 19 Apr 2026
Electrification is the answer to the vast majority of carbon emissions.
We know that electrification is the answer to the great majority of our carbon emissions.
Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025! Said 7 Nov 2025
Electrification of cars, homes, and small businesses can provide immediate climate emissions reductions.
Electrification of our cars, homes, and small businesses are the things that can bring immediate climate emissions reductions while we wait for the last few pieces of the industrial decarbonization (again mostly through electrification) to come into being.
Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025! Said 7 Nov 2025
It will be economic to overbuild solar on rooftops, carparks, and various other structures.
It will be economic to overbuild solar, rooftops, carparks, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, agrovoltaics, agricultural (barn) rooftops.
Electricity "too cheap to meter" is so... 1975. FREE ELECTRICITY is 2025! Said 7 Nov 2025
The US electricity system can grow sufficiently to accommodate AI, EV, and residential electrification loads at a rate of growth about half of what was seen between 1975 and 2000.
Maybe it isn't all as insane as it sounds, on current trends the grid can grow sufficiently to accomodate all of these loads and some residential electrification as well, and do so at a rate of growth only about half of that which was seen between 1975 and 2000.
Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodall Said 13 Oct 2025
Unnecessary soft costs in the US create a significant difference in the cost of installing rooftop solar compared to Australia.
These un-necessary soft costs account for the 7.5X difference in cost, and is a big part of why Americans can't have cheap electricity yet.
Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodall Said 13 Oct 2025
Current AI models do not actually understand things and still hallucinate.
I believe it is useful, but in my work using it for data processing, coding, research, and a little for fun, it still hallucinates and makes things up, doesn't actually understand things - even simple things like geometry.
Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodall Said 13 Oct 2025
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