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On Monday, 30 October 2017 09:10:07 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Today's forecasts of doom are the result of 30 years of dithering by |
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> governments of all stripes, neglecting to invest in new generation in spite |
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> of its absolute indispensability. |
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I'll refrain from jumping into arguments on political neo-liberal decisions to |
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privatise utilities, which are /natural monopolies/ and how the |
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financialisation of our anglo-saxon economies has reduced the attention span |
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of corporations and the politicians funded by them to tomorrow morning's news |
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headlines. |
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The point of indispensability of centralised energy generation though may no |
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longer be as absolute as once was. Microgeneration technologies and emerging |
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storage solutions could mean the future electricity grid resembles more of a |
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local mesh network, than the national scale infrastructure of the previous |
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century. |
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Now, I better look into finding a way to silence this new UPS fan which seems |
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to be going on 24/7 with or without load on it! o_O |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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