I don't know what to say

[cprise]

except that you seem to have stumbled upon a realization that pro-renewables advocates like me often have--but from the other way round.

The horrible thing is all these large oligarch/plutocrat interests are cross-invested to a large extent; they are ultimately Wall St. entities of the kind that seek monopoly rents above all else. That is the ultimate downside of a "service economy" mindset.

If you're ever going to cut through the corruption exemplified by players like Big Uranium, you have to go after their underlying business model. The only way I can see to do this (short of overthrowing the socio-economic order) is to undercut the monopoly service with competitively manufactured commodity products. The other "ducks" don't count unless this one is lined-up and looking pretty.