Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 01, 2024, 10:07 AMNowhere in your article is there ANY mention of limits or does the ability to provide extra power come into question from a technical point of view.
That is the scariest part of the article, even scarier than the amount of power they are talking about here or the amount of $MONEY$ it would take to pull off this techno-futuristic wet dream. That whoever wrote it could get through the entire article without once questioning the plausibility of it being done, and the fact there are actually corporations and real estate developers speculating on land where they think/want all the power plants and data centers to be built. I thought the mania involved with building the tallest skyscraper in the FSoA in the middle of fucking Oklahoma City a the precise moment commercial real estate is cratering was the height of human stupidity, but this article demonstrates human stupidity is INFINTE!
Where do these folks think they will get the money for this? They think municipalities can float enough bond issues competing to build these things in their neighborhoods? Including transmission lines which aren't even inside the boundaries of some muni? The FSoA is going tofinance it with a ne Electricity Administration like they funded the building of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system? That's what it would take at minimum, and that was done in an era when the FSoA was fresh off the Big Win in WWII and cheap energy was popping out of the ground everywhere Jed Clampett shot and missed a squirrel on his property. Today we can't even service the old debt we have without borrowing more just to pay interest, and they thin the Federal Goobermint will be able to do this with the Full Faith & Credit of the FSoA? The Bond Vigilantes have all been lobotomized? What?
I can't even fathom how many $TRILLIONS$ it would take to pull this off, or how the smartest guys in the room will work out some sort of plausible financing scheme that will project a moderate 10% rise in the cost of your electric bill over the next 50 years will pay for it all, no problem. Some dipshit Congress Critter will propose the new Agency and Plan, and POTUS Trumpovetsky will appoint his son Don Jr to handle all the real estate leases and Goobermint contracts for the build out. Can you IMAGINE the graft and skimming that would go on with this insanity? Who cares if it could ever be built, the money will be flowing like Niagara Falls before the first brick is laid or wire strung anywhere, and in 5 years there will be half finished and abandoned projects all over the country, like Chinese Ghost Cities and Bridges to Nowhere.
Only in Amerika.
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