¶ 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.
