home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky sci.energy:7091 talk.environment:5614
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!wa4mei.atl.ga.us!ke4zv!gary
- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Distrubted Power (was Re: NEWS: True Costs ...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.112610.6977@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <1993Jan14.144914.15148@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1993Jan16.152626.8317@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.145326.28997@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan20.185622.5446@vexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:26:10 GMT
- Lines: 30
-
- In article <1993Jan20.185622.5446@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >
- >Capital costs for distributed energy may be more but other costs may
- >ameliorate since fewer centralized plants will be needed. Some will
- >still be needed for high intensity industrial uses, but they will be
- >more appropriately responsible for this cost. It will
- >also remove a distortion in the marketplace in which decisions about
- >consumption are divorced from those about production. There will be
- >greater _market_ pressure to use efficienct technologies if you then
- >get to pay less for your energy collection systems.
-
- Dean, if capital costs for distributed systems are more than for
- central systems, then the fact that you need fewer central systems
- doesn't save you any money since you just replaced them with more
- expensive systems.
-
- Market pressure will follow Gresham's Law like it usually does.
- Consumers opt for the lowest up front costs rather than for the
- lowest lifetime costs. Thus the most efficient systems will be
- shunned since they usually have the highest up front costs.
- There's always a market for quality, but it's also a minority
- market.
-
- Gary
-
- --
- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
- Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
- 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | |
-