Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment

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trying to persuade us to buy things we don't need. The big

companies don't even want the little individuals to latch on

to the wind with windmills. But Hans Kieyer persuaded the

public utilities to accept excess wind power into the main

grid. He did it by more efficient conversion from DC to AC

and by introducing more sensitive meters. There is a 50

percent loss of efficiency if you feed direct current into

storage batteries; therefore the solution was to feed it into

the power grid--selling it at wholesale and buying it back at

retail prices. This is how you can impound Sun radiation for

society without going against the system....

Making sense and making money are mutually exclusive. I

have nothing against regenerative economic sustenance; I'm

just against the people who want to get in on the right stocks

to make a killing.

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