…but like everything else, this only works if the benefits are properly distributed, and our current sociopolitical systems aren’t all that great at doing that.”Isn’t it enough to just provide everybody with affordable, reliable electricity? I spent over 35 years in the power biz and that’s what we did. Not ONCE did any of us sit around pondering if “the benefits [we were producing were] properly distributed or if “our sociopolitical system was doing that properly.” Nope. We all had tough jobs to do delivering volts and amps 24x7.
Which has hamstrung NASA into a paralyzed non-player compared to the private sector. Allowing bureaucracy to wrap red tape over this project kills it before it even has a chance.
I sincerely hope President Trump luck trimming these parasites away from scientific progress and our tax dollars.