Bounty,

Completely unregulated electricity production is unlikely to work. Freedom to succeed and compete is also freedom to fail. What happens when "Brand X" power & light goes belly up and there isn't enough power for your house? Due to competition, all the other companies are so efficient that they have no surplus to sell you.... (And yes, they are targeting you :-)

Having said that, I agree that greater decentralization is a good thing. Rather than refineries, I wish W had plans to put reactors on those former bases. "Helium cooled pebble bed reactors consuming material taken from decommissioned weapons."

Could Gaia have been so wrong? natural fission reactors