Technology

If only he would have a heart attack on one of them

I don't care about the hill part. Get on with the dying already!

As long as the progress is profitable.

They're not really fighting progress, they're fighting whatever they don't own that's competing with what they do own. Whether that's progress or convention doesn't matter to them. At some point if the other thing wins they switch tactics and start buying it.

Depends on the fucking technology doesn't it? Most of it is capitalism slop. WE HAVE REINVENTED THE FORK! BY REMOVING A PRONG!

(it's been shown according to a study that I found in my anus that three prongs are superior and makes you healthier and saves me 25% on the production cost, isn't capitalism JUST FUCKING DANDY how did we even invent things before it?)

He'll pave over the ocean like he did the Rose Garden.

The fuckin pedophile will claim to have helped invent wind energy and his entire base will cheer on in triumph. He'd go go on further to exclaim that democrats were secretly trying to pressure him into stopping it, that's why the push back at first but he prevailed and now the Earth is saved from evil Obama who tried to destroy it.

There has never been a bigger windbag, so he may have a legitimate claim in there somewhere.

My question is, why does it matter who in government supports what?

Because they were actively holding back required approvals for the wind farms to begin operations.

The government paid like $1B for wind farm developers to abandon projects.

Most of the time government slows things down, but the current administration actively fights against progress or shatter people want. wtf does he care about wind farms in New England enough to shut them down

I mean the alternatives are not all wine and roses. We pay among the highest electricity prices in the country and a big part of that is depending on wind farms that are already like a decade behind. Previous governments slowed them down, letting everyone be heard, but they didn’t actively oppose

Because if you dont have some kind of regulation it ends up being about market forces, which has even less to do with the will of the people and more to do with what makes a very few people rich.

The main issue with government intervention isnt that "government bad", it's that those same few rich people have more influence on it than the will of the people. In a large part because those people would rather cede that power to them rather than make any kind of rational decision.

Its good that green energy is benefiting from market forces right now... but it's a fair weather friend, and as soon as something else is more likely to make some rich asshole more money, it will be tossed back in the junk heap to rot.

Nor is decentralization controversial. And there can be a conversation about making sure it is not actively discouraged.

But economies of scale are real. Does that mean a single power plant for the entire US, continent, world is a good idea? Of course not. Nor is 8.3 billion* individual installations.

* current world population