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As I understand it the US government is why every American home- from the deserts in Nevada to the mountains in Virginia- has electricity. And that investment h
by Neonlicht 2y ago
As I understand it the US government is why every American home- from the deserts in Nevada to the mountains in Virginia- has electricity. And that investment has paid for itself a million times over.
- BrianGragg 2y agoAs a loan and not subsidies/grant. A ton of rural nonprofit electric cooperatives started out of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
- ghaff 2y agoEvery is a bit of an overstatement. Generators in some places are a thing. (And so are fairly large areas without houses.) But generally, yes, also subject to the caveats in another comment. Satellite broadband does seem to be the "hack" for making locations that don't have broadband or really usable cell coverage in many cases practical.
- lowmagnet 2y agoSorry but it's not satellite broadband, it's the same rural electrification that is the "hack". My electric cooperative rolled out fiber to every address in the 3-county region it covers. It did so within a year. How? They already run poles everywhere, so they asked "why should we bury fiber?" As it turns out, it's easier to scale out on the pole!
- reverendsteveii 2y agoYeah but now they're funding multiple independent private space programs with my money and I'm not gonna get even one rocket out of the deal.