In our fusion legislation, endorsed by Bussard, there was provision, Sec. 903.a.6 to support fusion researchers for 5 years at their current levels of compensation, with no obligation on their part.
If the stakes are high enough you can easily afford that kind of disruption of rent seekers. On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > See: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/science/earth/sun-and-wind-alter-german-landscape-leaving-utilities-behind.html > > Some quotes: > > HELIGOLAND, Germany — Of all the developed nations, few have pushed harder > than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering symbols of > that drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea. > > They are wind turbines, standing as far as 60 miles from the mainland, > stretching as high as 60-story buildings and costing up to $30 million > apiece. . . . > > > Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable > energy sources. Many smaller countries are beating that, but Germany is by > far the largest industrial power to reach that level in the modern era. It > is more than twice the percentage in the United States. . . . > > > Electric utility executives all over the world are watching nervously as > technologies they once dismissed as irrelevant begin to threaten their > long-established business plans. Fights are erupting across the United > States over the future rules for renewable power. Many poor countries, once > intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their > people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build > clean grids from the outset. > > A reckoning is at hand, and nowhere is that clearer than in Germany. Even > as the country sets records nearly every month for renewable power > production, the changes have devastated its utility companies, whose > profits from power generation have collapsed. . . . > >
