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Comment Re:Core Competency: Lobbying, or engineering? (Score 1) 96

When a product or service is deemed too expensive (for buyers), or too cheap (for sellers), what to politicians do? Why, they take taxpayer money and hand it out as subsidies, thus "correcting" the price. What they NEVER do, is to take actions that will correct the cost.

Producing semiconductors in the US is not viable. THAT is the problem that must be addressed. Fixing the problem of a high cost, not artificially lowering the price.

Comment Core Competency: Lobbying, or engineering? (Score 4, Insightful) 96

Maybe if he had spent less time panhandling for taxpayer money for products for which the market was already willing to pay handsomely?

Maybe if he instead invested his time in engineering?

If your business model is predicated on government bail-outs, you don't have a business.

Comment Re:I hate to say it, but time to (Score 1) 110

How do you expect things? How do you know your models are accurate?

Pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is the definition of geoengineering. But you say we cannot predict geoengineering results. A climate catastrophe is upon us, and we know that reducing emissions is not going to happen, is crippling economies, and we don't know the outcome anyway.

Why are we not studying alternatives to GHG reductions? They may actually work, and the will probably cost a lot less. It's time for all options on the table, follow the science and the economics. Or is it not really such an emergency after all?

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