One by One
One By One
When I submit a post, sometimes I look around the room and realize,“Hmmmm. There are a number of blank looks.” The concept is, Economy of Scale.
A device shows up in the store, a type of refrigerator, one meant for the cottage and RV’s. It comes with a thing that looks like an electric fan, with a blade about 2 feet across. It has a special cord and the refrigerator has a special plug.
When the wind blows, the fan, up on the roof, spins and the beer gets cold. What salesman would miss the moment??
“ Boss, these things sell themselves. But the customers want something that they can plug in that will keep the beer cold when the wind doesn’t blow. And while we’re at it, can we adapt a television set? “
Mr. Consumer brings home his TV and refrigerator in the fall and sets them up in his rec room. And puts the two fan things on his roof. How about an eco friendly pool filter? That takes a fan several feet across. And you still need a thingy so it can be plugged in.
How about an eco friendly, wait for it, get out the echo machine, ready,
Air Conditioner!!!!
With it’s own six foot titanium fan and, of course, a thingy, so it can be plugged in.
After a few years, there goes the neighborhood. Each house has several big fans.
And the sad truth? If you mushed up all the fans and all the thingys into one big fan and one big thingy, you could supply three times as many houses.
What makes sense?? Solar water heaters do. Put them on the roof
Neighborhood mini power plants do. Heat, hot water and air conditioning supplied locally.
Wind turbines and solar panels, co-generation and carbon sequestration, all make economical sense at the larger local scale.
And that’s how that works. Professor Bob
November 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
It’s -25 with the windchill and you want a ton of frozen water on my roof?
I think there should be forced relocations of people from Manitoba to Australia. And they should be replaced with the Daion’s of the world at gunpoint if necessary.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
dions!!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Hmmmm.
Who is being punished for what?
Hmmm,
Just make a direct move? Yu know, Manitoba has suffered enough.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
We can’t afford to lose any more Manitobans, after I left, I think there were only a few hundred left!
Nope, the best idea would be to flood the entire Northern half of the Province, erect power dams, and sell the electricity cheap to the shut down Yankee industries.
Gotta keep those idle factories warm until the next economic turnaround!
Oh, and street people could shelter in said factories.