You're thinking "enough" in the context of current fossil fuel consumption, not in terms of renewable energy load balancing, which could be a much smaller slice of the pie.

Not necessarily. In times gone by, town gas was produced to meet fluctuating demands (using coal) by storing in gasometers. Nothing to say this couldn't be also done with biomass gasification.

Is there enough material out there for a 3D JLaw reconstruction?

People always overlook the need for a thermodynamic sink...

I think we would be better off going 100% silver bullets. That would instantly fix everything.

This is bullshit. Each state racket has their own scheme of licensing, it isn't unified across the continent. As for most taxi drivers owning their own business; you'll more likely find that the licenses are owned by (and traded amongst) a class of wealthy investors who wouldn't see fit to sit their arses in the driver's seat of a cab.

The drivers are likely to be impoverished newly minted immigrants who get paid a pittance and, typically lacking in local language fluency, get fleeced when legal things go awry.

I think you'll find that most people don't consult "the law" as a benchmark for determining their behavior. Saying that "the law" is what makes "society function" is a classic example of the correlation equals causation logical fallacy. Just because a law prescribes or proscribes a particular behavior, doesn't mean it is the motivating force for undertaking or abstaining from such behavior.

Only when the farmer finishes collecting all the straws in his field.

They expect us to make the trade, but provide no guarantees that they will perform on their half of the bargain.

See Sousa v City of Antioch for a pertinent example of them denying their obligations.

Citizenship is supposed to involve reciprocal duties of allegiance and protection. Protection is not guaranteed, but you betcha they'll guarantee to get their pound of allegiance.

Hey! Stop looking behind the curtains.

It should be obvious that politicians project their own fears and desires in the legislation they create.

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Prices are set at the margin, so any new and additional borrowed capital chasing the existing market-share will catalyze a boom in prices.

Where the banks failed is in assessment of borrower's capacity to service. But rising prices combined with the government-sponsored protection that is the mortgage, meant that moral hazard was the order of the day.

And that's without going into the problem of side-letters...

There was outright fraud being perpetrated, but no one has the balls to prosecute.

No sooner than some institution of authority is constructed and sold as legitimate, those who see opportunity in co-opting its perceived legitimacy for nefarious and personal advantage begin their work.