[renewiltord]

Fortunately, we have environmentalists who can protect us from a future of towering nuclear plants and wind turbines with hills covered in solar panels.

Is all that construction really worth it when we could be protecting neighborhoods and historic views?

[pstuart]

That's absolutely a fair dig but it's far more complex than that. Our whole manufacturing base being outsourced is on the corporations who chose that "cost-cutting" path.

And it's not an entirely binary choice on protecting neighborhoods and views; for example what's happening in south Memphis with the power plant that's powering the Grok center there is a classic case of environmental racism -- they are cutting costs on pollution regulation because they have a community that they can dump the externalized costs on via their emissions.

Nobody's saying Grok shouldn't have the power, it's just a small detail on how that impact is managed.

[renewiltord]

I don’t think anyone is convinced that if the small detail were managed that there wouldn’t be another God of the Gaps small detail.