It needs to be profitable because it needs to generate enough economic activity directly (in ticket sales) or indirectly (by increasing taxable income) to produce/expand/maintain the system.

Investor momentum is shifting, and smart money is chasing startups like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion (among others; however, they seem to be the front runners).

Renewables are and continue to be one of the most expensive power generation options on the market (I keep looking for signs that that has changed, and I see nothing on the market today that tells me otherwise). Even novel fission technologies such as SMRs MSRs threaten it from a cost angle (ignoring regulatory costs, which is why MSRs in particular seem to thrive in environments where regulations are non-existant or are "flexible"). Working fusion reactors would beat everything else on the market on a cost basis and could plug right into the grid, no problem. Fabricating the reactors may be expensive initially until economy of scale kicks in for individual parts, though honestly if you think companies for CFS and Helion haven't already addressed that in some fashion, I'd say you're nuts.

Keep your eye on Commonwealth and Helion. Things are changing.

Nobody's really brought a radically more cost-effective energy source to challenge fossil fuels. Nuclear and renewables have their advantages, but cost isn't yet one of them.

If you follow the markets day-by-day, crypto often follows the market, at least when it dips. The swings are different and the magnitudes are different which is why you see the different deltas from ATH. But the stock market is definitely not using crypto as a leading indicator as stated in the summary.

Even in Central Europe where most lecce is nuclear, I could run a wood fired steam engine in my backyard and produce power for less than the municipal grid price.

Somewhere around 1990, pig piles of yellow pages would be delivered in neighbour hoods and businesses all over and go straight to the garbage. It took about three years for the infernal things to die.

Most jobs in a bureaucracy are useless and not productive. In ye olden deyz there were huge offices filled with pretty girls whose sole job was to make correspondence look pretty. An engineer would write a letter by hand in his chicken scratch, send it to the typing pool and after a week, they would return a draft done by a youngster with a typo in each paragraph. You would then mark it up and it would then go to a more senior and possibly less pretty lady to retype and you would get it back with maybe one typo per page. At that point it was already three weeks later and you then had to decide whether to return it again or mail it to the client. All those thousands upon thousands of jobs disappeared forty years ago when engineers started to type their own letters on an Apple IIe. There are however still vast numbers of people employed as data analysts and quants to name a couple, which are now in danger of death by AI.

At least you can get rid of the solar sails once you don't need them anymore . . .

Assuming we don't kill one another in a massive war, odds are looking good for nuclear fusion to take over, destroying most of the existing energy market (including fossil fuel providers). That much cheap power would give us better ways of handling atmospheric CO2 levels.

Crypto is (for whatever bizarre reason) following the stock market, not vice versa.

No. Just no.

Why do we get submissions bragging about renewable capacity expansion and/or generation milestones? Where are the submissions boasting of everyday Britons saving money from their power bills being lowered by these installations? For the average consumer (and the economy of a nation), cost is the biggest factor.

The RF already won the war. The situation has been essentially static fir years. There is no way that Ukr will take their territories back - they are not able to. Therefore Ukr has to accept that and move on - rebuild what they have left.

Maybe Indonesia and Iran should move their capitols to Flint, MI!