>How would those lobbyists find out, if it were so secret? In a situations here this is rolled out for use to replace power plants and not for classified milit

>How would those lobbyists find out, if it were so secret? In a situations here this is rolled out for use to replace power plants and not for classified military applications, thus the various civilian industries and their lobbyists mentioned. I thought this was pretty obvious given I mention a laundry list of civilian industries that the bulk of which are comprised of private and publicly traded companies that are not defense related industries. >As for "there are very few people that know where the United States keeps any of it's various strategic stock piles" - what are you talking about? Stuff like the SNS which is 1 (more likely than not there are multiple locations with only public acknowledgement that 1 warehouse exists given a natural disaster or nuclear attack to a single region could effectively destroy the only stockpile) plain, unmarked, warehouse that the location to is a closely guarded secret due to the fact that someone simply driving a tanker full of a flammable material, then igniting it, through one of the doors of the warehouse could destroy the government's strategic stockpile of antibiotics, vaccines, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, PPE equipment, respirators and other critical medical supplies making it a highly valuable target to both foreign governments and terrorists. And the things that simply aren't public knowledge at all. I mean, every few years someone stumbles upon Cold War stockpiles that had been forgotten like back in 2006 when stockpiles of rations and medical supplies were found in the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge. But I'm happy for you that you can google 'strategic stockpile' and link me to a helium supply that the government has already order shut down and sold off (which has been covered by podcasts like Planet Money this year).