The brakes also serve to send energy to the batteries, recapturing energy from friction and regenerating electricity, rather than allowing the energy to dissipate as heat.

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And they want to buy up infrastructure to distribute energy exactly the sort of vertical concentration that liberalisation was designed to dissipate.

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