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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Alex MG who wrote (360932)1/22/2018 5:36:55 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 541583
 
<Moore's Law>

Pretty much but... The problem is that large civil engineering projects have very long resistance periods to new tech. With billions invested - having something (like a coal or gas buffer capacity plant) chartered five years ago that could be replaced by something new at the fraction of the cost makes people look stupid.

I learned many years ago (and have shared on this forum) - saving big institutional money gets the proponent nowhere. Doing more (but only with a bigger budget) always is well received by bosses at all levels because it leads to promotions. Doing things with less leads to it being done by a person with a lower title. Ergo, distributed power will only be done by national mandate and not organically through the administrative hierarchy currently in place.
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