Thanks complement. Your last sentence breaks the no-political-statements-in-the-choir rule. But since it cleverly can be read either way I'm goign to let it stand. Your feelings about nuclear should not depend on yr politics. With the election coming up, perhaps everybody should reread https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/gk-news-choir-rules
Jack - Good creative writing! Lets hope for reform in 2025 and not wait till 2027. I like your plan for handling risk with compensation covered by insurance. Unfortunately, the extensive blackouts mentioned in your Orwell-type predictive story will continue for quite a few years before new nuclear power plants can be built - but at least it's a plan for the future.
I stopped reading when the “president” started basing everything on CO2 output. Already in 2024, people are beginning to admit to the absurdity of wanting to control CO2 emissions.
Dunno but as an electrical engineer the power grid needs updates. As well as faster internet. In Tokyo and China and other Asian countries the speed is quick anywhere pretty much. But it is not per se that we all need to be at the speed of light either.
Jack, thank you for this marvelous, balanced piece. Perhaps it will help bring the right and left together to act sensibly.
A quotation from Emerson's "The American Scholar" seems appropriate: "The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie and you have already dealt it its mortal blow."
Jack, you seem to have taken the natural monopoly status of electricity distribution as a given. Contrary to common perception, the evidence for this is quite poor. In fact, I would say the evidence suggests it is a myth (see https://mises.org/review-austrian-economics/myth-natural-monopoly). That being said, the coop model clearly does have benefits over the predominant modes of electricity regulation today. However, it seems to me that "people controlling the power" is better realized by a free market in electricity (see https://www.aier.org/article/free-market-electricity-a-primer/). Shifting to such a market is not infeasible—Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity have some ideas for how it could be done. The implications for nuclear would be profound.
& until now I had never read about or known anything about RICA or this speech, thank you
Good job on reforming our electric power policy system! How do we reform our governance system to serve people instead of political power seekers?
We cannot forget this , Americans! You/We will get bamboozled again and again : see: stream.gigaohm.bio
This is great! I am an avid follower and thank you Jack Devanney very much
This is a well thought document. Send a copy to Kamala Harris.
Charles,
Thanks complement. Your last sentence breaks the no-political-statements-in-the-choir rule. But since it cleverly can be read either way I'm goign to let it stand. Your feelings about nuclear should not depend on yr politics. With the election coming up, perhaps everybody should reread https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/gk-news-choir-rules
You Sir have my vote for president…!
This might be the best thing you’ve written. Hats off!
It's a wonderful fantasy, but I don't think any president since George Washington has been this honest with the public. :)
Eisenhower's "military industrial complex" echoed Washington's "spirit of party".
Jack - Good creative writing! Lets hope for reform in 2025 and not wait till 2027. I like your plan for handling risk with compensation covered by insurance. Unfortunately, the extensive blackouts mentioned in your Orwell-type predictive story will continue for quite a few years before new nuclear power plants can be built - but at least it's a plan for the future.
Dear choir - please do all you can to share Jack's work with the popular media - mainstream, independent or otherwise. The word needs to get out!
I stopped reading when the “president” started basing everything on CO2 output. Already in 2024, people are beginning to admit to the absurdity of wanting to control CO2 emissions.
Check out stream.gigaohm.bio. Find out the real deal ..
Dunno but as an electrical engineer the power grid needs updates. As well as faster internet. In Tokyo and China and other Asian countries the speed is quick anywhere pretty much. But it is not per se that we all need to be at the speed of light either.
Jack, thank you for this marvelous, balanced piece. Perhaps it will help bring the right and left together to act sensibly.
A quotation from Emerson's "The American Scholar" seems appropriate: "The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie and you have already dealt it its mortal blow."
Jack, you seem to have taken the natural monopoly status of electricity distribution as a given. Contrary to common perception, the evidence for this is quite poor. In fact, I would say the evidence suggests it is a myth (see https://mises.org/review-austrian-economics/myth-natural-monopoly). That being said, the coop model clearly does have benefits over the predominant modes of electricity regulation today. However, it seems to me that "people controlling the power" is better realized by a free market in electricity (see https://www.aier.org/article/free-market-electricity-a-primer/). Shifting to such a market is not infeasible—Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity have some ideas for how it could be done. The implications for nuclear would be profound.