Frederick Bott
1 min readSep 1, 2022

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Thanks for this, interesting views, but to me this discussion seems bogged down in the politics, not really looking at the fundamental drivers.

You being an MIT Engineer and Economist, might be able to answer a question (If you dare!):

Why, when we've seen the positive effect of massive stimulus on oil prices (They went negative), the value of the dollar (It went up), the environment (It showed recovery), and pretty much everything bad going on, do we not work out that there was in fact valuable product backing that money given out for free, it was the free energy received from sunlight, now more than tens of GigaJoules per second in every developed country, which involves no labour of extraction for each Joule received, therefore produces no pollution, and is endless, even converting directly to valuable hydrogen fuel, which funcionally replaces fossil fuels, and is endlessly scaleable, but can't be represented by money issued as debt (promises to do the labor of extraction), do we not just turn the free money taps back on, on condition that at least some will go towards further initiation and scaling up community solar hydrogen installation, and leave them on?

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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