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Less Than Net Zero

What Happens When America Makes Electricity Free?

A strategic whitepaper exploring how the U.S. could make residential electricity free not as a subsidy, but as a lever to unlock national growth. This proposal reframes the electric grid as a generative economic engine that powers AI, manufacturing, affordability, and global competitiveness.

Energy StrategyInfrastructure EconomicsPlatform PolicyAI & Industry
Published: July 25, 2025
Updated: January 21, 2026
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The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral infrastructure layer for representing sports rights through published RFCs and a versioned reference registry. Additional briefs and whitepapers explore how incentive clarity and structural design shape scalable institutions.

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