You may have heard from King Knucklehead (in the White House) and his big biz BS buddies that the solution to this country's electrical problem lies in crisscrossing the nation with high voltage power cables and shuttling electricity from one coast to the other. -- And don't get in their way, or they'll seize your property to build towers on it. Anyone who sees merit in this approach has to be a complete fool.

To begin with, everyone knows that transmitting electrical power for any appreciable distance results in enormous line losses and higher costs. This rules out the centralized power production strategy of the rich & powerful. 

The real solution relies on what is known as distributed power. In other words, produce power close to the usage of that power to minimize losses.

Participants in the International Sustainable Growth R&D Network are actively involved in a multi-fuel turbogenerator project for distributed power in developing countries. The 2003 project is rooted in a simple strategy: enable everyone to become a producer of electrical power, sharing power back & forth through short runs of power cables. Technologies already developed in PNGinc's labs prove that a power sharing strategy is now possible and is in fact the correct solution to the power shortage problems.

Eventually even the centralized power producers will wake up to the fact that there is more profit in brokering energy than in producing it.

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