it is bizarre, this surprise from near-insiders. it sounds like the real insiders have it sewn up, but are downplaying that fact, muddying the waters.

as regards re-structuring the grid, would that be important for nuclear as well, or just solar/wind?

if proposals have to be in by the 15th, that leaves very little time...

it would be interesting to see a list and some details of the ones already sent up for review, if they're online.

they're all experts at sounding like real, radical change is what they want to happen right away, and i know this is huge, and will displace/replace all kinds of workforces, but it still seems mostly rhetoric.

while most of the public remains comfortably numb, i expect it's pretty easy to keep the wool firmly over their eyes about the big energy picture for europe. thereby milking them till the end on the present system, as long as it lasts, (and we continue to get along with the russians).

if they are seriously expanding the gas systems here, and keeping their heads in the sand about its longterm sustainability, while throwing the occasional, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't crumbs of incentives to a pretty clueless, incurious, and passive public, expecting bizniz as usual till the last drop of fossil fuels are burned, then i really wonder how much misinfo-ganda it's going to take to keep the boat from rocking, as prices continue to rise, wages to fall, and unharvested wind and sunshine continue to produce themselves abundantly right in front of our glued-to-the ground eyes.

still the only way to see how token these efforts to change are is to answer them. i wish there were a group of 100 Jeromes and Crazy Horse's to brainstorm this offer, flooding their desks with hundreds of meticulously prepared business plans, and Chris Cook along to show them new ways to afford them.

it's not the middle class we need to worry about so much as the middle-men class. are they all going to retire with their loot, running gentlemen farms and collecting art, or learn to grow veggies under the windmills with the hoi polloi?

there are going to be tens of thousands of risk-pushers and margin-shavers needing new employment, what are we going to do with them?

:)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~