[oclug] The Sinnister MS Connection Was : Rogers domain oddn

[Matt Rose]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 bbarnett at l8r.net wrote:

> 
> On 02-Feb-2001 Jon Earle wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Warren A. Layton wrote:
> > 
> If you own a house, why on earth would you buy natural gas, or electricity or
> anything from the grid?  Why not equip the roof of your house with solar
> panels.  Use the electricity they generate to split water and compress it in 
> a hydrogen tank.  Up until now, the big problem with solar panels is the loss
> of power while storing the electricity in batteries, and the cost of them. 
> Now, a large steel tank can hold 6 months worth of power, for the same cost
> of buying batteries that could hold a few *days* worth of power.  Hydrogen
> power makes it feasable to store up power in the summer, and use it in the
> winter.

	SOme companies down here in California did that a couple of years
ago, and now, they're laughing all the way to the bank
1.  They don't have to worry about rollling blackouts
2.  They don't have to pay PG&E's rate increase
3.  They are actually selling power back to the grid, sometimes making up
to $500/month!
> 
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> > 
> >> If more Linux users threatened to cancel their
> >> Rogers service because they weren't being served properly, perhaps
> >> Rogers would wake up.
> > 
> > Not likely - there are, most likely, more than enough Windows users to
> > fill the gap.
> > 
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