Re: Bitten by NIMBY, CA power system goes socialist...

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 20:16:24 MST


From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> The article said that the law was referring to state owned utilities
> that are being 'extorted' by independent power producers. Not all
> utilities are privately owned. Many cities own their own electrical
> distribution utilities. Sacramento, for instance, is its own electric
> company, but with less power generation capacity of its own than it
> distributes to its customers. Its private companies like PGE that have
> power surpluses and are selling to the public owned utilities.

Well, with all this politicking going on, no wonder no one can develop mass
produced fuel cells and high-temp superconductors. There's more money to be
made in working the system.

Stay hungry,

--J. R.
3M TA3

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 I think I must add "free will" to the list of "consciousness" "phlogiston"
 "vitalism" and "mind" as examples of useless hypotheses.



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