On 10/30/2017 03:15 AM, Mick wrote:
On Monday, 30 October 2017 09:10:07 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
Today's forecasts of doom are the result of 30 years of dithering by
governments of all stripes, neglecting to invest in new generation in spite
of its absolute indispensability.
I'll refrain from jumping into arguments on political neo-liberal decisions to
privatise utilities, which are /natural monopolies/ and how the
financialisation of our anglo-saxon economies has reduced the attention span
of corporations and the politicians funded by them to tomorrow morning's news
headlines.
The point of indispensability of centralised energy generation though may no
longer be as absolute as once was. Microgeneration technologies and emerging
storage solutions could mean the future electricity grid resembles more of a
local mesh network, than the national scale infrastructure of the previous
century.
Now, I better look into finding a way to silence this new UPS fan which seems
to be going on 24/7 with or without load on it! o_O
Some new UPS systems are designed to have the fan running all the time.
I don't think it's a good idea to stop it...
Dan
