[ExI] The Actual Visionary of the Future

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> The unemployed can supply lower cost labor
> than they were before when more people were employed.
>

Unless there is an unreasonably high minimum wage. Then more will just be
automated.


> I can see myself doing something like that; we
> could have some fun with it.  Yes it will cost money.  If we have a
> believable plan that pencils out, investors will come.
>

But solar isn't yet economically viable for most applications. You have to
have government subsidies to get it going at this point most of the time. I
know you don't want that Spike.


> Sheesh they are doing this in GERMANY!


The government over there is doing it. Or rather paying for it.


> We yanks have more rooftop area per
> capita and way more sun than they do, and they can supply a cost model.
> They have the PV factories, so we hire the kraut engineers over here to
> help
> build our PV factories using our cheap labor.
>
> We can go from a discontented idler society to one in which most people are
> cheerfully working their asses off most of the time.
>
> This is what we mean by Practical Optimism.


I think a better plan is to open up more areas for energy exploration. Just
a thought. It's working in North Dakota and parts of Texas.

-Kelly
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