> When expressed in constant 2019 dollars, the average price of electricity in the United States fell from $4.79 per kilowatt-hour in 1902 (the first year for which the national mean is available) to 32 cents in 1950.
One can paraphrase the joke about democracy for nukes. Having nukes is the worst, other than every situation where you don’t have nukes and the other guy does.
Most of the other guys get nukes because we have nukes and threaten them militarily. They're very expensive, countries don't want them unless they need a deterrent, and we're often the main threat.
The one exception I can think of is remote shutdown in the face of a rapid natural disaster. Like how the japanese train network is set to shut down rapidly when a high power quake is detected.
Why does it have to be remote what's wrong with it being in-house? Besides a shut-off should never be able to be triggered remotely.
The same goes for digital emergency shut off buttons; all should be physical.
> Less-responsive power plants.
What? How is remote any more responsive than physical workers being in-house?
If power-plants operated efficiently back in the 50's without internet, they should be able to now without internet.