[60766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Aug 15 17:19:36 2003
In-Reply-To: <53179.167.211.190.2.1060976072.squirrel@rcon.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:16:57 -0400
To: "Rich Casto" <nanog@radicalconsulting.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Friday, 15 August 2003, at 15:34PM, Rich Casto wrote:
>
>> 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".
It was a fact at some point. That it's not a fact any more is exactly
my point.
Joe
