Why then did the California scientific community leave its energy supply in the hands of politicians and cult members, the former who will lie, cheat, and steal to get elected, and the latter who rely on their emotions to point the way to salvation, both of whom are only interested in what feels good now. To say that "power failure... ruined those experiments" is to obscure the fact that it was the failure to provide power that did the deed. Power, failed or successful, doesn't do things; it must be directed by a human being who accepts the responsibility for its supply, or absence in this case.
But political solutions seem to be the direction of choice. Doesn't it freeze your soul to acknowledge that only through government dispensation can important scientific research and production progress? I am not reassured that researchers have "embraced conservation." To be sure, there is ...