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Maybe the biggest obstacles to new technologies is the government and its endless regulations. But is is just the government making regulations? No. It’s usually industry pursuing government reps to create more regulations to stifle competition.

Humans are a pretty brainy bunch overall. Finding workarounds to the human obstacles is likely more challenging than solving some of the other problems. Perhaps we could start with the regulation process. If I were to take a wild guess, it’s the area of most resistance and least enjoyable challenge to undertake.

Has anyone noticed that the term “nuclear energy” has dropped out of people’s vocabulary in the past few years? Cheaper energy is an advantage to the masses but not to TPTB. It was demonized and perhaps regulated to stifle competition to the “renewable energy” stercus tauri. By making energy scarce and expensive, we are rolling logs uphill. Maybe revisiting that mode of energy is something to bring back to the table for discussion.

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