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Re: East Coast outage?

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Fri Aug 15 17:58:15 2003

> > 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





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