Negative Space: solar power
- Deadly complications of government bureaucracy
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Government monopolies, whether government agencies or de facto government agencies in the form of government-sponsored enterprises, aren’t rewarded by getting product to the people who need it. They’re rewarded by kissing up the bureaucratic chain.
- Let them eat solar
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The reason we don’t have an alternative to fossil fuels is that we’ve put government bureaucrats in charge of finding it.
- Power Play 2020
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Frederik Pohl shows why science fiction authors aren’t any better at being futurists than anyone else. Hubris is a powerful drug.
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- Journalistic Sun Stroke
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“She, and countless others, were deprived jobs at legitimate businesses because government sucked $500 million out capital markets to endorse and underwrite the ‘clean-energy’ hustles of its favorite check-writing eco-crooks.” (Memeorandum thread)
- The Solar Cooking Archive
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Including the Portable Kenyan Solar Cooker.
