What constitutes a “better world” is of course always up for grabs. But that’s America too. If some people want to get rich while others want to put an end to global warming, well, let them duke it out in the marketplace. That’s effectively what the Energy Policy Act has made possible. It’s not a pretty fight. Nor is it a clean one. But where there was stagnation there is now innovation. And where there was a stable, if aging system—our grid—there is now a fantastically unstable, old one with new bits and more modern logics soldered into the joints and around the edges. Be that as it may, at
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