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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-11 10:04 AM
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1. Yes, exactly.
Centralized monolithic distribution systems are brittle, have bottlenecks, have single points of failure, and they are inefficient, except at extracting money from the "served". Scale matters, and as you scale things up, architecture comes to rule everything else, good or bad.
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  -It’s Not Just Alternative Energy Versus Fossil Fuels or Nuclear – Energy Has to Become DECENTRALIZED Demeter  Jun-25-11 09:51 AM   #0 
  - Yes, exactly.  bemildred   Jun-25-11 10:04 AM   #1 
  - It's about time someone said it. Fuel cell stations quite neatly and conveniently  HysteryDiagnosis   Jun-25-11 10:10 AM   #2 
  - strong recommend!!! -- nt.  xchrom   Jun-25-11 10:22 AM   #3 
  - Alternative will never replace oil  4dsc   Jun-25-11 10:38 AM   #4 
  - I guess we will just have to use less then. nt  bemildred   Jun-25-11 10:41 AM   #5 
  - Society will be re-made to be Oil-Free  Demeter   Jun-25-11 10:49 AM   #6 
  - What an absurd statement. Texas had 25% of all electricity use in the  plumbob   Jun-25-11 11:29 AM   #8 
  - Boy are you kidding yourself  4dsc   Jun-25-11 03:32 PM   #14 
  - I'm not kidding myself about anything. I pay 6 cents per KWH - what about you?  plumbob   Jun-25-11 07:02 PM   #18 
     - +1. nt  bemildred   Jun-25-11 07:48 PM   #19 
     - Dependent upon oil to build  4dsc   Jun-26-11 09:00 AM   #20 
        - Quit being so mysterious. Spit it out. HOW is oil essential to the  plumbob   Jun-26-11 12:16 PM   #21 
           - You fail to realize  4dsc   Jun-26-11 03:20 PM   #22 
              - Since you refuse to give any details, but just these assertions, I will  plumbob   Jun-26-11 05:44 PM   #23 
                 - Its called peak oil  4dsc   Jun-28-11 07:07 AM   #25 
  - Also I bet if you look at GE's portfolio  swilton   Jun-25-11 03:33 PM   #15 
  - Tired canard.  bigmonkey   Jun-25-11 11:50 AM   #9 
  - Not if Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, et. al.  swilton   Jun-25-11 03:35 PM   #16 
  - rooftop solar for all buildings, like we have :-) nt  msongs   Jun-25-11 11:16 AM   #7 
  - How tall does a building have to be to run out of room for solar in its roof?  RC   Jun-25-11 12:55 PM   #10 
     - Does that matter?  Demeter   Jun-25-11 01:24 PM   #11 
        - So you think the big cities should spread out taking over good farm land, instead  RC   Jun-25-11 03:21 PM   #12 
           - I think Big Cities should be undone  Demeter   Jun-25-11 05:22 PM   #17 
              - +1  txlibdem   Jun-28-11 10:39 AM   #30 
  - Absolutely!  swilton   Jun-25-11 03:28 PM   #13 
  - "Energy Has to Become DECENTRALIZED"  awoke_in_2003   Jun-26-11 07:03 PM   #24 
  - Both centralized and decentralized are absolutely needed  txlibdem   Jun-28-11 08:52 AM   #26 
     - Local damage will interfere with local supply regardless.  bemildred   Jun-28-11 09:05 AM   #27 
        - Your post shows a complete lack of understanding of where your electricity comes from  txlibdem   Jun-28-11 09:29 AM   #28 
           - Deleted message  Name removed   Jun-28-11 10:23 AM   #29 
           - Try to be consistent.  bemildred   Jun-28-11 02:05 PM   #31 
 

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