There is very very little that the US Federal Government does well. Everything they touch seems to turn to crap. If they start regulating the internet under the guise of "Fairness" it will go from rocking to suck very fast.

As for the argument of telco monopolies, they are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Where I live, which is admittedly a population center, I have no fewer than 4 choices for any of my 3 telco services (Phone Internet and TV). Even my family members who live in rural areas have at least 3 choices for TV, 2 choices for phone and soon will have 2 realistic choices for high speed internet services.

I say that the feds have enough power, lets not enable them any more.

If you are not giving credit for D's, explain the difference between a D and an F.

You beat me to posting this calculation. However you are calculating revenue as the ROI and not profit. They still have to operate the plant and pay the distribution costs. This will lower their ROI significantly. If they are making a 10% profit, which I think may be high, then the profit at $.10 becomes 1 cent per KWH. If you wanted your money back in 20 years, you would have to make a profit of $.17 per KWH.

60Million/20 years = 3M per year
3M/365 Days = $8,220 Profit a day.
$8220/ capacity of 50,000 KWH per day = $.16

This means you have to charge more than twice the going rate for electricity. Eventually, as fossil fuels become more scarce, this will be a cheaper way to make power. I suppose that it is 60M well spent on R&D.

They are not dreaming. Look at the Arduino project (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is an open source hardware project. All OSHW means is that anyone can make it.

An example in hyperbole:

I have a petition in my hot little hands that asserts that I should be made supreme commander of the earth with authority to decide who lives and who dies. It is signed by over 4 Billion people, all of whom wish to remain anonymous. Can I have my throne now?