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Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task by justrealist on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:49AM (#35470078)
This seems like a completely unrelated implementation detail.
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Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task by mywittyname on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:05PM (#35470360)
Seriously. The government could have just leased rights to the land for 100 years to the railroad companies.
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Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task by justrealist on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:28PM (#35470737)
We don't need to go full PRC, we can just make land grants that make geometric sense.
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Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task by mywittyname on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:45PM (#35474951)
If the concern is getting multiple companies to cooperate and preventing them from accumulating too much land/power, leases are a good solution.

Land leases are not bad things just because the PRC happens to use them. The USG leases a crapload of land to companies for various profitable enterprises. It's a tool in the toolbox.

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