The grid has been called the largest machine in the world – building it took decades, millions of workers, and hundreds of billions of dollars – and fixing it is an almost impossibly ambitious task. But in 2023, Justin Lopas and Zach Dell founded Base Power to try anyway, and it turned out that a lot of talented people wanted to work on this problem too. The engineer who got Starlink's laser mesh network working joined to lead their software. A Tesla veteran who'd spent thirteen years on everything from the original Roadster to the Powerwall joined to build their battery. And investors have since bet billions of dollars that they're onto something. Whether they're right will come down to a handful of beliefs about what electricity will look like in the coming decades. Base Power & The Future of Electricity, by @espricewright & @mikemcg0: