[ExI] Where's the electricity power coming from?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 12:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *I see nothing in the constitution which empowers POTUS to cancel a
> power-generation project*
>
This could mean either federal approvals, under authority from Congress,
needed for it to function, or (more likely) federal funding (in which he
has been riding roughshod over Congress's authority anyway - see
discussions about "recissions" - but may have more authority in this
specifuc case).

> *Another thing I don’t get: if it is a 700 MW facility and it is 80%
> complete, why wasn’t it built such that if it stopped at 80% complete, it
> would now producing about 500 MW of power?*
>
It's not linear like that.  The final 20% tends to include things to tie it
to the power grid and allow it to function in general.  The raw 700 MW of
generation may be there, but those MW can't go anywhere, and aren't legally
allowed to without that last 20% - and that applies to any alternative you
would likely think of, including on-site desalination.  (People - including
some who were rather creative and desperate - have had around a century to
think of, and lock down, such alternatives.)

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