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RE: Decentralized Electricity- The Future That Never Happened

in #life7 years ago

Oh, this topic is one we've discussed at length. Actually I have a story about it. I was with my step-son on the way back from a grape vine delivery and as we passed one ugly pole after another I wondered aloud "You ever think about how with such advances in technology, we're still using electricity from poles that were put up, what sixty years ago? There's no way that they haven't discovered a much more efficient wireless method by now. I'm sure some would conclude, much like he oil companies, the electric companies are wealthy and unwilling to go down without a fight. But there's something else...all of these poles are hooked up to a grid. Which means all it would take to knock out the power for the whole city is to bring that grid down. Sounds like a nice control device to me." And just as I finished this statement, I swear to you, we passed a huge billboard that read "You never know". To this day I have no idea what that billboard was in reference to, but I won't forget the look on my step-son's face as we passed it, his eyebrows winging into the air.

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That's a good point, that it makes a good control system as far as taking out the whole array with one action.
I always think that if electricity were more accessible, then we would have accidentally discovered lots more about it by now, 'we' as in the world's group mind. It's not surprising that geeky interest in electricity is discouraged by society, it keeps thing as they are.

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