Microgrids May Provide Distributed Energy

jobcello wrote to mention a BBC article discussing a new technique for power distribution that might provide electricity using a series of small "microgrids", in a manner similar to peer-to-peer software. From the article: "'This would save something like 20 to 30% of our emissions with hardly anyone knowing it ... A microgrid is a collection of small generators for a collection of users in close proximity ... It supplies heat through the household, but you already have cables in the ground, so it is easy to construct an electricity network. Then you create some sort of control network.' That network could be made into a smart grid using more sophisticated software and grid computing technologies."

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Re:Independant Citizens

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Indeed, how is it relevant at all to this discussion? I suppose maybe, just possibly, the electricity on government owned grids could possibly be used to power a computer which could possibly have a government keylogger which could possibly be infringing on privacy, but come on...