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Would those be the 'save New orleans' no matter what, the New Orleans/New York/San Franscicso shoudl be saved no matter what, or the live in a shack without water-sewer services ideas?
This is a fine post about what he's doing for rail. Rail is a fine plan to keep a transportation grid working (although some people are gonna end up loosing their land via Emm. Domain as rail is re-asserted) Electrified rail is a great 'excess wind/PV power exists on the grid and can't be stored' application.
But not everthing Alan says is a good idea.
Its like opposing making ethyl alcohol from corn. Something has to keep Oil CEO fueled up....if he wasn't drinking, would he be posting?