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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:10:08
Message-Id: 514fb8df-3d93-7368-963b-41dcb08762ce@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient by Mick
1 On 10/30/2017 03:15 AM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Monday, 30 October 2017 09:10:07 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >> Today's forecasts of doom are the result of 30 years of dithering by
4 >> governments of all stripes, neglecting to invest in new generation in spite
5 >> of its absolute indispensability.
6 >
7 > I'll refrain from jumping into arguments on political neo-liberal decisions to
8 > privatise utilities, which are /natural monopolies/ and how the
9 > financialisation of our anglo-saxon economies has reduced the attention span
10 > of corporations and the politicians funded by them to tomorrow morning's news
11 > headlines.
12 >
13 > The point of indispensability of centralised energy generation though may no
14 > longer be as absolute as once was. Microgeneration technologies and emerging
15 > storage solutions could mean the future electricity grid resembles more of a
16 > local mesh network, than the national scale infrastructure of the previous
17 > century.
18 >
19 > Now, I better look into finding a way to silence this new UPS fan which seems
20 > to be going on 24/7 with or without load on it! o_O
21 >
22
23 Some new UPS systems are designed to have the fan running all the time.
24 I don't think it's a good idea to stop it...
25
26 Dan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>