From my perspective, this is a simple problem that has very complicated politics and emotion that make it difficult to make progress.

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The problem is this: we have a highly complicated electricity grid with approximately 3, 500 utilities, thousands of power plants, 200, 000 miles of lines, and tens of thousands of transformers.

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This may sound like a complicated way to make a telescope move, but the problem is, there is nothing in empty space to push on.

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