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News flash: Policies meant to encourage growth in high-tech clean energy are encouraging growth in high-tech clean energy! This isn't the first time this has b
by GeneralMayhem 11y ago
News flash: Policies meant to encourage growth in high-tech clean energy are encouraging growth in high-tech clean energy!
This isn't the first time this has been trotted out as an indictment of Musk, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's really goddamned stupid.
- kiba 11y agoIf they actually properly price the negative externality into objects like gasoline, there wouldn't be needs for government subsidies of clean energy.
- iamcurious 11y agoThat solution is more elegant, but it requires more political finesse. Measuring the external costs raises many difficult questions. What to do with that money raises many more (hopefully not as difficult) questions. It is also a more general solution, which naturally threats more interests. All this makes it take longer to implement and makes a lot more people interested in prolonging it even further. Which raises costs and drives the best talent away, and makes it more likely the project gets killed. Throwing some pocket change to a few talented individuals and hope for the best is nasty hack, but sadly we lack skilled and properly motivated politicians to do much better.
- GeneralMayhem 11y agoAnd in that magical world I probably have a mansion in the Hamptons.