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kristopher

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3. True, but that's only part of the point.
Fri Feb 14, 2014, 10:13 AM
Feb 2014

The other part is that their is substantial momentum being developed against the dark influence of the "energy corporations".

I'd suggest that you need to find a new shorthand for those you are calling the "energy corporations" as that term is preparing to lose the meaning you've employed. It makes sense to think of fossil fuel companies, owners of large scale centralized thermal plants or vertically integrated utilities in terms of Big Oil etc.; but talking about solar and wind in way simply doesn't make sense when we are all energy producers. I mean, we can certainly expect that most ownership in the final system is going to be local and small scale and also, that the manufacturers of the equipment to produce energy will have no more control over their output than a company manufacturing TVs or stereos has over the entertainment industry.

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