> When expressed in constant 2019 dollars, the average price of electricity in the United States fell from $4.79 per kilowatt-hour in 1902 (the first year for which the national mean is available) to 32 cents in 1950.
One can paraphrase the joke about democracy for nukes. Having nukes is the worst, other than every situation where you don’t have nukes and the other guy does.
Most of the other guys get nukes because we have nukes and threaten them militarily. They're very expensive, countries don't want them unless they need a deterrent, and we're often the main threat.
Nothing wrong with it being in house. But having a back-up is never bad.
> How is remote any more responsive than physical workers being in-house?
If the on-site workers are incapacitated. It's a remote (hehe) risk. But so is foreign hackers doing anything with our nukes.
> If power-plants operated efficiently back in the 50's without internet, they should be able to now without internet
If you're fine paying 50s power prices again, sure, I'm sure a power company would happily run their plants retro style.