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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: East Coast outage?
> I wonder how much of the understanding and "100 years experience" of > building power distribution networks is based on the fact that > affordable, distributed, small-scale power generation is not possible, > mandating large-scale, centralised generation and correspondingly > complicated transmission. Perhaps the power generation problem needs > the attention of a fresh set of eyes. You wrote "fact" when you should have written "assumption". There are plenty of examples* of "affordable, distributed, small-scale power generation." If our governments would more pro-actively encourage (e.g. subsidize) local power generation via renewable energy sources (e.g. solar, wind, hydro) it would go a long way towards solving this problem. * examples: http://www.solarhost.com/about.htm http://www.solarliving.org/overview.cfm Rich
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