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As the smoke cleared, OrionWorks <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Actually, IMO, even if it is technically plausible to get every > building off the grid and completely self sufficient there are valid > reasons to maintain some kind of a local grid - something akin to how > the Internet works. For example, if the power generator housed in your > basement suddenly (and most inconveniently) decided to go on the fritz > Sunday evening just when you're sitting down to watch another > installment of 60 minutes it would be nice to be able to automatically > receive power from your neighbor's power generator next door, or even > better, from several of your neighbors. I suspect this could only be > possible if there was a smart grid in place constantly monitoring the > power requirements of all households in every block. > > It would seem to me that power utilities may need to re-invent > themselves. There's no reason why they shouldn't be up to the task. > Instead of being the supplier of energy to the masses, they may need to > transform themselves into service companies that maintain the optimal > health of each household power generator, all this for a nominal > monthly service fee of course. It would be no different than receiving > cable service for TV and Internet. > > And of course, you KNOW there will have to be some kind of regulation, > probably on the national scale. There would HAVE to be some kind of > distributive power standards in place to make sure accidents wouldn't > happen. For example: someone's power module might accidentally begin > spilling excess power into the local grid, or worse, slip out of phase > with the local grid. This would possibly disrupt the power needs of the > entire block - and then NOBODY gets to watch 60 Minutes! It never ceases to amaze me how people think like this: going halfway with the logic -- and then realizing they Don't Really Want To Go There... and so inventing so chimera halfbreed monstrosity in stead. Fact is, the 'MiB' have more-or-less existed ever since J.P. Morgan & Co. pulled the plug (so to speak) on Nikola Tesla: because they came to well understand that such teknology WILL 'pull the plug' on a LOT more than just the power grid and the electrical companies... This IS truly revolutionary stuff. - -- grok. - -- *** SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM ? *************************************** * Capitalism wraps itself in flags of convenience * Critical * * The latest one is religious obscurantism * Support only * *********** HELP STEM THE ASSAULT ON MATERIALIST SCIENCE *********** * http://www.infidelguy.com The Infidel Guy Show * * http://www.visual-evolution.com Visual Evolution * * http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear No Answers in Genesis * * http://www.stephenjaygould.org Stephen Jay Gould Archive * * http://www.csicop.org Committee for the Scientific Investigation * * http://www.evowiki.org EvoWiki ** of Claims of the Paranormal * * http://itconversations.com IT Conversations (audio) * * Going to church doesn't change things. Going to the streets does.* GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkns11YACgkQXo3EtEYbt3ERFACfdAMdDSOQY/TbggEIcfM7F1t2 hIQAoO7XeCfBCHvRy0XV4aLHs+LujsLJ =oU1k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
