>Patience and intelligence may be part of the problem, but economics >and greed are central -- Big Business (Big Oil mostly, plus the ADMs) >are only supportive of things that will make them Big Money. Any energy >approach that is distributed and partial is not going to do that the way >centralized sources would (nuclear, etc). And of course, anything you >can do yourself (PV, biodiesel, etc) is even "worse"..... -K
I guess I'd both agree and disagree with parts of this. I mean, there's no doubt that a centralized corporatized giant project can make a bigger push, in one moment, in and of itself, than one single decentralized distributed presumably less big-business project. But over the course of "installation" I believe that decentralized projects can and will cumulatively provide for very large percentages of the markets they strive to serve, and that, meantime, a centralized effort, no matter how well thought out, might run up against some upper limits, environmental, physical, economic, whatever. Just my opinion. I think these can be subtle considerations, and perhaps more difficult for an American like me to consider than for others given that I and others have lived in a centralized distribution model for energy all our lives. Some of the subtleties could I suppose be fleshed out by looking at still other technologies which can easily be both (such as solar PV). They are not limited to one single home or one giant project, though there are different issues for both. For example, a homeowner who chose 10 years ago not to engage in a solar installation at that time might have argued that he didn't possess the skills and that they were not sufficiently possessed locally, and that in a society with "separation of labor" he simply didn't have the time (putting aside other additional weighing factors such as simple costs, and costs of arguing over with utilities, etc.) A centralized model might, it could be argued, inherently take separation of labor somewhat more into account. Likewise, some might not be into figuring out how to make their own fuel. There is a middle ground in that one though, where a few people in the community could do it. At present this seems to be somewhat illegal. Can't think of why...., maybe because the present Administration actually doesn't care, as they seem to want to present, that they would like to do everything possible to improve our national energy sourcing situation? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home with Ease! http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
