>the way electricity works physically (coupled with the way societies have been built around it being readily available) makes it fundamentally impossible to manage through market force

This is anti-scientific woo. Both theoretically and empirically market-based electricity systems are much more efficient, that's why even China is adopting one: https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/chin...

> This is anti-scientific woo.

This is hilarious coming from someone defending a concept that assumes neither thermodynamics nor Maxwell's laws exist.

> Both theoretically

When making preposterous hypothesis.

> and empirically

Ah yes, like the PJM and the European market are “empirically efficient”.