One often reported problem is that the electrical grids betweent the east and west parts of Japan are not compatible and you can't transfer electricity easily. Why was that tolerated? Why do we not hear of efforts to remedy that now? Japan has huge geomthermal potential, huge wind potential, and is a leader in some of the technology, probably modest solar, huge tidal. They have an educated and hard-working population, admittedly many past their working prime. What they have somehow ended up with is a government that does not seem to function and an electrical company that functions as a government, ending up doing things iwth international implications, none of which are good. mg