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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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. . . . >> >> >
