Uncache economic liberal dogma and consider real world experience for a moment? Because just going from observation, I would have to say that Electric Grids do in fact work better when centrally planned.
TVA, EDF and the rest of the regulated utilities beat the stuffing out of every example of places that attempt to have competitive markets in electricity.
That said, if we actually cared about the problems of fossil fuels, we would long ago have transitioned to a fission based grid, because that would actually solve that problem.
Nuclear fission. As in: “Everyone follows the example of France and Sweden, builds nuclear reactors until they no longer have any fossil fuel based power plants”. There are no real resource or economic limits keeping us from doing this—the Russians have quite good breeder reactor designs, and on a per-terawatt hour produced, it would kill a lot fewer people than any fossil fuel, and cost less money.
Uncache economic liberal dogma and consider real world experience for a moment? Because just going from observation, I would have to say that Electric Grids do in fact work better when centrally planned. TVA, EDF and the rest of the regulated utilities beat the stuffing out of every example of places that attempt to have competitive markets in electricity. That said, if we actually cared about the problems of fossil fuels, we would long ago have transitioned to a fission based grid, because that would actually solve that problem.
Googling doesn’t find many hits. What do you mean with the term?
Nuclear fission. As in: “Everyone follows the example of France and Sweden, builds nuclear reactors until they no longer have any fossil fuel based power plants”. There are no real resource or economic limits keeping us from doing this—the Russians have quite good breeder reactor designs, and on a per-terawatt hour produced, it would kill a lot fewer people than any fossil fuel, and cost less money.