Technology

It's also not a bad idea to start developing alternatives to fossil and nuclear backups for otherwise-green grids. It could be a good gap filler for countries whose people have been propagandised against nuclear, for instance.

And it doesn't hurt to see where certain tech will take you. Once you get some engineers together to build and run this thing, you never know what other applications will come to them and other observers. If all you have is coal plants, it's hard not to look at them and think, 'maybe we could burn something else instead' in terms of innovation. I hope that makes sense.