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Giuliano Giacaglia
@giu
What can be done to return to the historical trend? What happened? h/t @pmarca
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Cc @julia
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Nerd-E 🎩🔮
@nerdy
Utilities companies are currently rent-seeking entities. Disruption is badly needed. Increased investment in electrical transmission, and modern nuclear technology would be my opinion. But there needs to be true competition or price controls (tied to previously agreed upon electrical rates) depending on region. Otherwise monopoly pricing will keep costs high.
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not parzival
@alexpaden
The fairly obvious answer: nuclear isn't cost-efficient because of the regulations surrounding it; Julia/packy mention cement costs alone as an absorbent cost in the podcast. Oil and gas reserves aren't looking for the price to go down by draining the supply faster than we already are— that behavior ended 10 years ago mostly The permafrost gas in Russia would reduce European costs
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Greg Robinson
@gregrob.eth
The bill has come due for supporting grid infrastructure. Utilities are spending more money on reliability than on new MW of generation. So unlikely to come down on a per kWh basis. Also, interesting to think about is what effect PURPA (1978) may have had, originally meant to drive efficiency -> more kWh per kW.
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