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  • Build it "smart"... they will come

    Thanks Joseph, I really enjoyed your post. I have been posting similar thoughts.
    Here:  http://solarenurgy.net/open-source-economics/

    The decentralized aspect to energy generation if indeed the wave of the future. Bill Gates could be one the folks to jump start us down that road. Like us (U.S.) Canada, is going through a milestone experience with distributed renewable energy, nuclear energy and fossil fuels. Here is a post about how renewables may trump nuclear... with the edge being a "smart" grid with decentralized renewable energy generation.

    http://solarenurgy.net/will-decentralized-renewables-trum ...

    Your last question and excellent point is when and who is going to move us forward to a "smart" grid with distributed personalized energy generation. I belive I have found that answer in a new solar energy startup company. Their business model is not unlike the paradigm shift that happening to the cell phone industry. Once the product was inexpensive and simple the masses quickly adopted the technology. The potential is huge and the solution is simple... the panels are rented, at or less than what a customer is currently paying for their electric, the install and maintenance is free. All with no upfront cost. Sound to good to be true? The only down side is patience. The company is still in it's pilot phase with 1000 homes to be installed later this year. The major funding needed to take them to the next phase is right around the corner. We have been patiently waiting for over a year. I am confident, it not only will happen in a very big way, but it will also make the most profound change in the energy industry we have ever seen. Not to mention... social, economic and national security. It literally and figuratively gives power back to the people.

    The energy market is primed for this shift. It is going to happen with or without Bill Gates and with or without this new company.

    Again, thanks for the article.
    Bruce Marshall-JonesOn Framing the energy revolution like the computer generation posted 1 year, 4 months ago 9 Responses