> But I should warn you. In your answer, you _should_ be able to answer
> how an international power grid would be developed, and how the
> technologies would be developed. You should be able to explain why
> researchers in a hypothetically non-capitalist system of 1900 or so
> would forgo the use of fossil fuels in favor of other sources of
> energy-- and why their political beliefs would determine their decision.
I don't have to put together some kind of alternative energy plan for the year 1900, because my point was that technology is not neutral.
Chuck0