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Energy use per person versus GDP per capita makes it relatively clear that increasing the kilowatt hour per person increases GDP. It just really makes you think about the fact that everything really is downstream from energy. Energy, having energy means that you can do more work, you can make more food you can support more of your citizens and your fellow humans. Itβs just the reality. Just really makes me think about how we need to produce more energy, when you think about how thereβs a revival going on with nuclear reactors coming back online in the United States because AI data centers are driving electricity demand https://x.com/tphuang/status/1945666711895601298?s=46
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imho, permit-free residential solar should be a universal policy. as you say with everything downstream of energy, the household finances and need for AC & foodstuffs should be in as little distress as possible, even if only reduced to velocity of money. I'm also very confident that the state would find economic incentives for any surplus residential energy beyond the utility's bargaining power.
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This is a much long term view, that the government, both at a local scale as well as a state level should adopt as a policy, but you know that it won't unfortunately. Ultimately, there's too much bureaucracy, and also such little urgency at this directive. I agree with you I think the two areas that would increase this that immediately come to mind are: - universal childcare and government support in childcare and rearing to guarantee more citizens. In the long run, more citizens means more GDP - and more energy + more citizens means more GDP But obviously reality has a lot more inertia and is a lot more nuanced and complicated than this in many ways
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