Generating and Selling Your Clean, Green, Electrical Energy

Your local energy company is probably trying to find solutions to three problems. You can help.

First, regulations and "not in my back yard" (NIMBY) attitudes make expansion of their facilities difficult. Second, the are under pressure to find and implement more green energy technologies. Finally, they need an inexpensive way to bridge peak demand periods without adding expensive new generation sources.

Provide the answer with a solar panel or windmill that you built, and the electrical grid is more secure, more green, and more flexible.

Even those that disagree with militant green agendas have an appreciation of our planet - at heart we are all environmentalists. The differences and heated arguments are over perceived degree of environmental problems and approaches to a solution. We all can agree however that affordable renewable resources, such as solar and wind power, are preferable to devouring irreplaceable and limited resources.


Small scale energy generation from local renewable sources is a cost effective and efficient way to please reasonable contenders in the environmental debate. Some at either extreme will never be pleased, they relish their emotional screed more than progress toward a solution. You do not need to be limited by their belligerence.

You can benefit yourself, and by extension society at large, by contributing now to an acceptable energy policy. Build your own energy installation, and work at connecting it to the grid as a natural enterprise.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead

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Attacks on brick and mortar and virtual infrastructure are increasing as stateless groups use technology to re-create the world in their idealistic image. Add to this natural enterprise that wants to avail itself of technology to bypass bureaucratic roadblocks and improve lives. A final element is bureaucracies themselves that keep expanding trying to cover all contingencies and still protect the special interests of bureaucrats.

The result is good centralization ideas of just a few decades ago, such as a connected and supportive energy network, are now vulnerable at both nodes and pathways. There is no way to protect these extensive networks; central response is too slow, local bureaucratic representation is stretched too thin to have needed strength. The proposed solution is to have dispersed teams that are "good enough" to handle challenges instead of waiting for an eventual, too late, central response.

The internet was conceived as a decentralized network where missing nodes and pathways would be automatically bypassed by distributed resources. The strategy: since you can't protect the entire network, create ways to bypass damaged sections.

Technology is developing a better way, abhorrent to those that worship their closely held bureaucratic power.

Protect those you love from energy disruptions and earn credits or money selling your excess electrical energy. Small decentralized sources of energy with the ability to operate separately "off the grid" do not offer suitably large targets to opportunistic groups seeking to disrupt major sections of a society.


Dispersed systems are robust and self-repairing.

Shut down one organizer distributing software, music, or videos and no disruption occurs. The content is on the individual computers of users dispersed around the world. Immediatly millions of sovereign hackers distribute replacements for organizers that were closed. Localized mirror sites, and already morphing improvements are implemented simultaneously.

If this is all a bit dense, read the short and light prologue to my novel, Complicit Simplicity.


How does this apply to energy?

Local, decentralized solutions are the most dependable.

When you and your neighbors have installed critical infrastructure into your own homes and businesses, they will be too small to justify attack or appropriation. Able to operate off the grid they are stable energy sources. Contributing to the grid they are inexpensive additions to central schemes, that can offer financial rewards to you.

I'm sure you have noticed that huge bureaucracies are failing, thrashing about dangerously in their death throes, but still failing. Don't stand in their way as they fall. Prepare alternatives to dependence on their systems.

An inexpensive first step is assuring your own energy supply. As with most innovations, helping yourself will also help others.

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