To the point about Part 3 -- Very few people think appropriately about energy and energy economics, ie, not what's possible via equations, but what's probable based on the reality of deployment by political, fickle, job-hopping, returns-seeking, vacation-taking humans. The image that comes to mind is of a Very Important Person with very important business rushing up to the DMV. No matter your hurry and imperative, everyone has to wait for processing and that's as true for licenses as it is for transmission, pipelines, panels, mines and everything else in the value chain that generates the baseline energy units that get alchemized into intelligence.
To the point about Part 3 -- Very few people think appropriately about energy and energy economics, ie, not what's possible via equations, but what's probable based on the reality of deployment by political, fickle, job-hopping, returns-seeking, vacation-taking humans. The image that comes to mind is of a Very Important Person with very important business rushing up to the DMV. No matter your hurry and imperative, everyone has to wait for processing and that's as true for licenses as it is for transmission, pipelines, panels, mines and everything else in the value chain that generates the baseline energy units that get alchemized into intelligence.