>..."electricity from nuclear energy will be so cheap, it will be useless to install a meter in privates homes". That was simply a statement from the head of t

>..."electricity from nuclear energy will be so cheap, it will be useless to install a meter in privates homes". That was simply a statement from the head of the AEC at a meeting with science writers along with a lot of other bold statements about the future: >...It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age. >...A later survey found dozens of statements from the period that suggested it was widely believed that nuclear energy would be more expensive than coal, at least in the foreseeable future.[6] James Ramey, who would later become the AEC Commissioner, noted: "Nobody took Strauss' statement very seriously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter