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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
I would much rather have that money be spent on renewable energy infrastructure/research. ...or just plain public education.
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The problem with public education is the public (at any age) has to want to be educated for it to be effective. Money isn't going to solve that problem. Coming up with something awesome once in a while seems to be more effective.
As for the government doing such things, I feel like some USG technical agencies have been riding high on successes from 2 generations ago and have gotten both fat and stupid ever since. They definitely should have a role to play, but have become bad at playing that role.
As for leaving it all to industry/contractors, they will always have the executives interests as the highest priority. Industry can deliver a good solution, but someone has to keep them in line with where the funding came from. Some solutions are optimized for the public good and some are optimized for executive good.