One to Zero: 21st century to the Dark Ages

Re:One to Zero: 21st century to the Dark Ages by rdl on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:59PM (#11301010)

I'm curious if there are other distributed generation techs which could make sense -- 1KW windmills, thermal/stirling/etc.

Solar economics might make it win over everything else, though.

Also might be fun to subsidize solar by selling data. In exchange for hosting/keeping clean/etc. the solar panels, you get most of the power, and a small amount of data, which is then provided as commercial data service to the nearby area.

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Re:One to Zero: 21st century to the Dark Ages by abbasmehdi on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:14AM (#11302837)

Terrorism is too real in that part of the world unfortunately as you already know. A 1KW windmill will turn into a 3 ton pile of smoldering scrap metal if the right mouths aren't continuously fed. Also the idea is de-centralizing power generation to skip the transmission step where all the leakage exists.

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Re:One to Zero: 21st century to the Dark Ages by rdl on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:09AM (#11302953)

Oh, I think of 1KW as household size (for a water pump or something, and a large household, true)

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Re:One to Zero: 21st century to the Dark Ages by abbasmehdi on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:24AM (#11304892)

Oops, sorry, read that as 1MW for some reason.

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