Re: East Coast outage?

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

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