Readings / Local Steel

You cannot start a 10,000 horsepower motor with solar panels or windmills; a topic eschewed by academia because that's not where government research money flows. If you're going to build roads and bridges back better you'd better not buy the reinforced bar from competitor nations. Alas, higher education research enterprises in the United States does not have freedom of inquiry. Any conception of a Smart Campus will involve steel lest large chunks of it be offloaded onto the internet.