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Re:Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viab... by prawn on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:59AM (#14725101)
Who shouldn't get the money and power? The incumbent power generators or the politicians?
Re:Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viab... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:45PM (#14727118)
Well, both.

The Libertarian in me thinks we should deregulate the energy market, and that means starting with removing subsidies to fossil fuels and renewables.

My left-leaning political sense thinks we ought nationalise the energy industry as it's too important to leave to the whims of the market, and work out a cost factor to apply to the waste products of energy generation.

My right-leaning political sense says nationalising energy assets would be a disaster and that we need stable base-load energy, because the alternative is untenable.