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DougCounty on “Energy advisers”

Au contraire, Devo; when it comes to making energy decisions, it is important to understand more than the joule. Why? Let me give you an example: a community’s power can be provided by a distant, highly centralized nuke, owned by someone else, transmitted via huge transmission lines that make disruption more likely, and have reduced efficiencies caused by the long distances the electricity has to go over those expensive transmission lines. OR, a community can develop its own decentralized generation sources such as wind, which is already competitive with new coal and cheaper than nukes, plus developing solar technologies, which both promise to have great potential for reducing carbon emissions, be locally owned, hook into a network of other community distributed power sources, which has the potential of a more stable and less brittle source of power than the centralized nukes, which almost require a police state to provide adequate security safeguards. Think it can’t be done? The EU is well on its way to doing this, and local self-reliance is an American value, too.

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