Getting By Without the Grid
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 @ 01:35:29 GMT
Topic: General
From TIME Magazine (Aug 17, 2003): Can America free itself from the grid and democratize energy?
By Jeffrey Kluger
"...While centralized power will probably always be with us, the best way to upgrade the energy grid may well involve doing away with some of it, democratizing energy production by handing the job off to communities, blocks and even private homes...
Because so much of the American gross domestic product is involved in the coal, petroleum and nuclear industries, walking away from them would set off severe economic shock waves. "The grid is a $360 billion asset," says Clark Gellings, a vice president of the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute..."
Read the article here: TIME
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