>>1456604>So there would only be two sources of funding - federal funding that is doled out based on electoral performance, and funding from voters through private donationsAnd also dark money* and if private "voters" can donate whatever they want then that makes no difference lol because the people controlling corporations can make "private donations."
>>1456614>wind and solar are already cheaper than nuclear or even coalThe only reason nuclear is expensive is because of government:
americanactionforum.org/research/putting-nuclear-regulatory-costs-context/>average nuclear plant must bear a regulatory burden of $60 million annuallyIn the 50s people really thought that they would have a jetsons-like future with energy beams and flying cars and shit. It's interesting to look at atomic punk because their computers were so archaic.. the minds back then thought that energy would be the easy part to solve with nuclear power and that computers were the difficult part. "Energy too cheap to meter" was a popular mantra of the time.
But this changed when the government started to heavy handily regulate nuclear into oblivion. Partially due to concerns about proliferation but even when proliferation resistant reactor designs were concienved that did not quell regulators so it stands to reason that they had a darker malicious motive to place cartel restraints on the global energy market, not unlikely or unreasonable to believe as they have clearly done this with banking and only bitcoin was able to challenge it briefly and now will require sufficient advancement to again gain independence. Cartels and monopolies only exist when violence is used to bully a market. Attempts to corner markets have only worked in niche examples and when tried in larger freer markets they have failed.
Nothing wrong with solar but algae biofuels are also a necessity but they are trying to avoid letting that happen as they have patents on solar panels and batteries and want centralization.
