Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Smart Grid(popularmechanics.com)
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Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Smart Grid
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For internal economic reasons, Texas may not want to export electricity. To do so would bring it under federal regulation, and additional taxes.
This reminds me of Andy Grove's article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07.... Most thought-provoking was about foreign dependence: Electricity can be transported only over land. Consequently, it will stay in (or stick to) the continent where it is produced.
This reminds me of Andy Grove's article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07.... Most thought-provoking was about foreign dependence: Electricity can be transported only over land. Consequently, it will stay in (or stick to) the continent where it is produced.
?Transported only over land?
Apparently Seimans plans to overcome the wetness of the Mediterranean:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-714009.html
Apparently Seimans plans to overcome the wetness of the Mediterranean:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-714009.html
And as we know, our governor here in Texas is very anti-Federal regulation (he recently intimated at a press conference that we once were and could go back to being an independent nation, a not-unpopular notion amongst Texas natives).
In any large scale (ie, too large for social sanctions to work) cost or risk sharing system, the careful and competent get screwed over to benefit the sloppy and stupid. Large scale insurance schemes were where I first noticed this. And during one of the French Republics, Bastiat wrote in his classic "The State"; "Government is that great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
It was surprising to learn this fact in the article about how the regulatory environment influences innovation in energy production. I expected a completely different spin from the article title.