[60760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Casto)
Fri Aug 15 15:56:29 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Rich Casto" <nanog@radicalconsulting.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <562D393E-CF47-11D7-83F8-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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
