Oftentimes judgment is clouded by prior experience as FSJ describes. Unfortunately our dear fake Steve has setup a bit of a strawman. No core idea is disputed,

Oftentimes judgment is clouded by prior experience as FSJ describes. Unfortunately our dear fake Steve has setup a bit of a strawman. No core idea is disputed, just the qualifications of those trying to approach the problem. EnerNet and other negawatt proposals attack the same kind of inefficiencies in power utilities as once plagued circuit switched telephone utilities. The two problems are actually analogous, which FSJ hasn't analyzed at all.