Not true if you live in a country that has a decent social security system...
My GPUs are warming my home during autumn, winter and spring and that electricity would anyway be spent in pure Joule effect otherwise.
This is how it works in every single scientific field (astronomy, cosmology, geology...). Every lab has subscriptions to the scientific journals in their field. Anyway, what benefits would the average Joe get from reading those papers ? Would you for instance be able to understand them and take advantage of their content to start producing industrially medicine?
Well, this might be a great idea for the future when we'll be able to deliver GPPDs...