Re: [Pen-l] smart grid question

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Gar Lipow<gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The initial discussion was whether a smart grid would facilitate
> Enron-like pricing and soon turned into a discussion of "is a smart
> grid all bad".  Apparently the discussion only became fetishism when
> the answer to that question was "no".  Take  a radical decrease in
> production as goal. I think that is fetishism too, but assume for the
> sake of discussion that a production decrease is needed. Do you really
> think HOW we reduce production does not matter?.  Do you really
> believe that the right way to decrease production is to do the same
> thing we do now, only decrease quantities? If not why are you so
> friggin eager to derail any discussion of what the right thing to do
> is?



To be fair, I don't think Carrol was trying to derail the discussion
on how to distribute electricity. He was trying to *add* to the
discussion the essential point that efficiency ain't going to cut it.
Reduced energy consumption is essential. A point that I wholeheartedly
agree with.
-raghu.


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