<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 12:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_2743317517600773865WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2743317517600773865gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I see nothing in the constitution which empowers POTUS to cancel a power-generation project</span></b></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">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).</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_2743317517600773865WordSection1"><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2743317517600773865gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">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?</span></b></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">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.)</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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