Yes, teh future of electric oughtn't be big-ass solar arrays eating away at more wilderness, it should be more distributed, with each building having its own solar/wind generators while still being hooked to The Grid and using existing power sources while also feeding excess power back into it. If they were really serious about everything going electric, they'd concentrate on getting every house and apartment building with its own little array. Hell, if I had the money to build a house, I'd sure as hell have it rigged with enough power from the get-go, plus some.
Gah, I remember when they were promising every house to have its own little nuclear generator about the size of an AC unit! Free power! Then Three Mile Island happened.
Gah, I remember when they were promising every house to have its own little nuclear generator about the size of an AC unit! Free power! Then Three Mile Island happened.
Yeah, I remember a similiar article when I was kid talking about how homes of the future would all have fuel cells to make them energy independent, etc.
We're close with home batteries and home solar, for many parts of the country.
With solar panels you can produce your own energy.
Can you pump and refine your own oil?
Electrical tools make you LESS reliant on others.
Yes, teh future of electric oughtn't be big-ass solar arrays eating away at more wilderness, it should be more distributed, with each building having its own solar/wind generators while still being hooked to The Grid and using existing power sources while also feeding excess power back into it. If they were really serious about everything going electric, they'd concentrate on getting every house and apartment building with its own little array. Hell, if I had the money to build a house, I'd sure as hell have it rigged with enough power from the get-go, plus some.
Gah, I remember when they were promising every house to have its own little nuclear generator about the size of an AC unit! Free power! Then Three Mile Island happened.
Yeah, I remember a similiar article when I was kid talking about how homes of the future would all have fuel cells to make them energy independent, etc.
We're close with home batteries and home solar, for many parts of the country.