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Originally Posted by Rochard
Obviously you didn't live in California in the late 1990s when the power company couldn't produce enough power to keep the fucking lights on. We had rolling black outs, meaning for a few hours each day we had no power. You would walk into a grocery store and it would be dark inside because they shut off most of the lights to conserve power.
It seems to me no matter what it is, people will bitch. Your talking about green technology, but the moment I put solar panels up on my roof someone will complain. It's already happened with a house a few blocks over - they put up solar panels, everyone is complaining, and they are considering legal options to force them to remove it.
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Richard there was enough power... it was market manipulation by Enron to make money
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/enr...ts-traders-say
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron#C... nergy_crisis