Decreasing energy costs has the least political opposition and lowers the cost of living
Democrats and Conservatives can get behind lowering cost of living without replacing jobs
(i.e. deflation of costs by replacing human jobs with automation/AI may not have as much bipartisan support)
It’s relatively well-researched and executable to increase (1) solar energy and (2) nuclear energy
These are coordination, markets, or political/regulatory problems, not research problems; therefore, it is a known known with very few known unknowns (and likely little unknown unknowns) - just scale up what is working
Why is lowering energy costs not a top focus area?
Decreasing energy costs has the least political opposition and lowers the cost of living
Democrats and Conservatives can get behind lowering cost of living without replacing jobs
(i.e. deflation of costs by replacing human jobs with automation/AI may not have as much bipartisan support)
It’s relatively well-researched and executable to increase (1) solar energy and (2) nuclear energy
These are coordination, markets, or political/regulatory problems, not research problems; therefore, it is a known known with very few known unknowns (and likely little unknown unknowns) - just scale up what is working