Electrification Changes What Energy Security Means

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardOct 18, 2026, 11:59 am95 ptsTrending
For most of the fossil-fuel era, energy security meant securing a continuous flow of things that disappeared when they were used. Oil arrived in tankers, natural gas crossed pipelines or oceans as LNG, and coal moved by rail and ship. Burn the fuel and another shipment had to follow, which ... [continued] The…

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