East Coast outage?

Fri Aug 15 21:16:57 UTC 2003

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