According to Xiaofan Chen on Tue, 12/08/09 at 20:44: > > Distributed power generation has long been a good idea. For it to be more > useful, the distributed system can feedback power to the grid. But grid > connected distributed power can be a problem since it may affect the > stability of the whole power system, especially for countries with many old > power distribution systems (eg: USA). Therefore the grid companies > do not really like the idea. That being said, a green distributed system which > powers up a whole community can be a good idea, you can still have grid > which powers up big stuffs like water pumps. My $0.02 worth: Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist