Reply To: Look at this

[zapkitty]

Aeronaut wrote: But hearing “lords and masters” and/or conspiracy theory is a dead give-away that somebody hasn’t done their homework about how the system works, why it works that way, and why any emerging technology needs to fit itself within that system. This doesn’t mean sell out. It means design lots of ways for existing energy providers and distributors to look good and profit more by doing the right thing in our opinion. I outlined this last year on the FaceBook discussions tab.

I mentioned no “conspiracy theory.”

I only referenced the oft-demonstrated fact of the importance of energy to the elites… and the unimportance of human lives to said same. The most recent example being several hundred thousand dead Iraqis but there have been many other examples in US history alone.

Now the plutocrats may indeed rely on the web of inertia inherent in the current infrastructure of power generation and regulation to slow down and hobble a disruptive technology… but bypassing them completely by offering a home heating and power plant solution at a fraction of the price of a new home is guaranteed to cause a rash of small plane crashes.

And your argument seems to want to have it both ways… paying toll to the oligarchs while declaring “freedom!”

Now, even I intimated that paying that toll may indeed be the only way forward… but to pay that toll while pretending that otherwise the oligarchs would just let you slide with toppling one of the pillars of their power is naively optimistic at best.

I know you envision jump starting a fusion infrastructure with a relatively small amount of money but please don’t go all talk-polyglenbeck on me and say that the oligarchs are the solution and not the problem and that the best thing i s to make more oligarchs 😉