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Ezra Klein had a neat article on it. Or to simplify, technological civilization needs energy. The more energy you have available, the more technological goodies you can make. Any plan for generating energy which doesn't at least match current energy production capabilities or ideally, exceed...

You could simplify this to saying that centrally planned economies don't work regardless of whether the central planner is a communist generalissimo or a capitalist billionaire who bought up everything and set themselves up as a feudal lord by renting their property to the rest of the population...

Case in point, windmills aren't a credible competitor to the petrodollar. Nuclear reactors or orbital solar would be, therefore the petrodollar's masters must preemptively prevent their adoption via their usual tactic of giant hordes of brainwashed morons.

I'd been assuming it was a propaganda campaign against orbital solar. Look at the propaganda anti-nuclear anything already receives, they want something similar with hordes of morons protesting against powersats because the petrodollar can't have credible competitors.