Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Rematog wrote:

… 30 years or so after initial deployment, FF modules may become accepted enough to site at a shopping mall, but not right away.
REMATOG

An how do you think people are gonna pay for oxigen, nano-defence and war on the moon if all the money is wasted on grid decentralization? 😉

The Nano Tax increase will pay for nano-defence, and the war on the moon will be funded by the drug taxes put in place at the end of the war on drugs.

Oxigen??? Free as the air we breathe…..

Rematog
Actually, money would be saved by decentralization. Imagine a small rural community that has had to pay thru the nose for expensive transmission and hookup. Lots of real-life examples exist. A half-dozen FF generators, for about $1.5M capital cost, would be enough to tell the power co. to roll up its copper wire and stick it where it’s needed.

As for shopping malls, who’d really care if it was out of sight, out of mind? A couple of generators could sit in the basement offering merchants huge savings on power costs. Imagine the huge neon displays, and spotlights piercing the sky all night, and loud Musak, and …. Hm. Maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all…

BTW, I like the idea above of Edison’s Revenge. I myself have tried $50-$100 worth of CFBs, of which two are still operating. No more. I stock up on incandescents. Also less danger of a major Hazmat event if one should actually break (mercury vapour and particles, y’know!) (I have seen some reports (240 lumens and climbing fast) of very eye-compatible white LEDs, with costs following the Moore Law.)

The bind moggles. :bug: