[60769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Aug 15 17:56:09 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: <alex@yuriev.com>, "Rich Casto" <nanog@radicalconsulting.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:49:40 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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".
>
And solar nor wind are good for base energy production so we´re stuck
with other methods unless you want to move IP packets only when it´s windy.
Maybe we could attach the packets to hot air balloons and send them with the wind?
Pete
