The same thing is being done in Anacortes, WA:
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/anacortes-high-speed-internet-water-pipes/281-e8b55da6-e190-4a54-bfda-d0104291d3f8
https://www.bbcmag.com/community-broadband/anacortes-is-first-city-in-washington-to-become-an-isp
I remember as a kid that when you bought bottled soda, you usually paid a deposit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bottle_recycling_in_the_United_States). It seems that recycling deposits should be applied to other things, like batteries.
A few years ago, a Dev went a step further with this, by outsourcing his job (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21043693)
This year H1bs were suspended (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/politics/trump-h1b-work-visas.html).
Alternate link: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/09/business/tech/hideaki-horie-invents-new-battery/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/25/chain-email/no-there-arent-14000-abandoned-wind-turbines-litte/
Extremely unlikely that these jobs will go offshore:
1. Even unclassified government contract jobs go require citizens or green cards. Classified jobs require citizenship.
2. The Salt Lake City area is lower in cost compared to alternative areas.It already gets companies that want cheaper workers, but needs them in the US.
I would suggest tech schools should follow the Co-op model pioneered by the University of Cincinnati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_education). It provides students experience in their fields of study, as well as extra funds.
To quote Hyman Rickover, "Fish Don't Vote!".
The University of Cincinnati Engineering College and several other Engineering Colleges have, for the last century, used the Co-Op model. In this system, students alternate school terms with work at companies. It is generally paid, and is in the student's area of study. It is fairly common in Engineering schools, especially in the Midwest USA.
To a point. Beyond a certain point, however, an organization of people can amass the ability to speak at sufficient volume (both in loudness and in quantity) to effectively drown out dissenting voices. Thus, in order to guarantee free speech for the individual, to some degree, the speech of large groups must be kept in check.
Similarly, commercial speech (e.g. advertising) has limits that require a degree of truthfulness.
Clearly you weren't paying a lot of attention to the ads associated with the presidential campaign that just concluded in the US. The Supreme Court was pretty clear in Citizens United opinion (Google it) that an organization's right to free speech/expression cannot be limited by government in the form of limits placed on donor contributions, or how those contributions are used. This case essentially gives any non-corporeal legal entity the protected right to say whatever the hell it wants.
The idea of building Solar Power Satellites, where solar energy is produced in orbit and beamed back to earth as microwaves, has around since the 1970's. Using spaced-based resources, like an asteroid, is likely to reduce the costs substantially. For more, check-out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power.
That's nothing. We've had Bull Sharks in Minnesota! (http://www.nokomiseast.org/yard/light/creeksharks.html)
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"
