[60767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Aug 15 17:44:02 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:52:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Rich Casto <nanog@radicalconsulting.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <53179.167.211.190.2.1060976072.squirrel@rcon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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.
Rubbish.
If in order to make it viable such energy needs to be subsidized then it is
not "affordable".
Alex
