> Society has conditioned us to believe that reliable power for ... life-sustaining applications is something that we can't live without

> A modest proposal

Oh yes, I was taken aback by the sleight-of-hand tricks in the article, and I was keen to take some of the ideas to their logical conclusions while using a similar form of argumentation. I notice that there was a link to a Jonathan Swift article posted earlier, as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683397.