Willfull ignorance of economics is a duty, enforced by mainstream “educational” institutions and mainstream “news” organizations.
The only “free electricity” I’ve seen is generated by people living off-grid, who use water/hydro power to turn a water wheel to power a generator; or through the use of solar panels.
That is why electricity is is called a ultility.
Yes, everyone has a right to electricity, and health insurance for that matter. E everyone has the right to pay for these things. No one should be excluded. No discrimination. If you want it, you buy it ...with your own damn money.
When the beautiful sun comes out after a bad rainstorm and you’re going for a walk, you soon realize that you can’t save all the worms on the sidewalk struggling to make it to their destination.
The people of India are just going to have to make electricity by cheaper means.
Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors provide many advantages in producing this cheap electricity. Properly harnessed, electrical energy generated by these Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors can consume much of the radioactive “waste” from Uranium-fueled Light Water reactors, be scaled up or down in size as needed for the application at hand, be placed in relatively close proximity to large population centers without the fear of a runaway “China Syndrome” massive radiation release. and best of all, do not produce weapons-grade plutonium as a byproduct. Thorium is about four times as plentiful as uranium in recoverable form in the earth’s crust, and does not become spontaneously fissionable under any circumstances, but may only be “ignited” in the presence of the small amounts of “spent” uranium fuel rod material.
A win-win in every way. Only the problem of solving the highly corrosive nature of the molten salts (mostly fluorides) on the structure of the atomic pile itself, stands in the way of its much wider adoption. The principles and the applications have already been proven, it is now just a matter of engineering.
Money is data, which is why most of it can be stored and processed in computers. At the root money data is about energy consumption. When someone buys a bag of chips they are in effect paying for all the energy used to produce it, directly but mostly indirectly.
All economic activity consumes energy. That is exactly why Democrats keep trying to seize control over energy with regulations and carbon taxes, and exactly why they should be kept away from hijacking the source of all wealth production.
The Green New Dealers want electricity reserved for the ultra-rich who can afford to pay the carbon tax to keep their multiple mega-mansions lit, while the third world is to be denied power plants altogether.
Anyone who burns wood to cook & heat is a polluter, too, & must be flogged & re-educated.
How is this OP helping anyone but AOC and her ilk?