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On 10/30/2017 03:15 AM, Mick wrote: |
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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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Some new UPS systems are designed to have the fan running all the time. |
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I don't think it's a good idea to stop it... |
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Dan |