This happened all over Australia, citizens were told to sit back and let nanny provide. I know why it happened but it now seems an infantile model of government.
Why did it happen? Was it a reason beyond the maxim of You-aren\'t-going-to-need-it?
Wired had a piece on
people supplying their own electricity
and using the main grid only as a backup. It interested me to know that it was actually illegal to transfer power into the grid in many US states until recently; I\'ve kept half an eye out for stories on the micro-, and nano-generator scenes for a couple of years but never cottoned onto that fact. Water and electricity are a little different - you can\'t just dump potentially unfiltered water into the mains - but it would be interesting to see how the idea of selling back to the utility would work for water. At the moment Sydney Water give a rebate when you buy a tank; if you could sell your excess back to Sydney Water it would make the tiniest of steps towards offsetting the rain shadow affecting Warrangamba.
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