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March 28, 2012 06:49 pm PDT
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Rolling on the river: The future of local energy
Today, most of the electricity in the United States is generated in very large facilities—capable of serving millions of homes—far away from the people who will actually use that electricity. We do it this way because it makes financial sense. It's cheaper to produce electricity in bulk and ship it over transmission lines, than it [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/p9C4-v3NfQg/rolling-on-the-river-the-futu.html
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