Friday 8 June 2007

Peer-to-peer electrical grid

The idea breaks down like this: everyone has a generator for their own house electricity and can sell surplus to neighbours. If your own generator goes down, you can still use power while it is repaired by buying it from your neighbours. Also, if your needs are temporarily higher than your own generator can supply, you can buy your neighbour's surplus to make up the difference.

The concept might only have a few practical applications, and it would be a pain to keep your own generator running all the time too. Still, it's an interesting thought.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - If generators could run for longer on clean fuels, that would be better.
PPS - We don't want to be polluting on this kind of scale.

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