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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (187820)	5/31/2006 7:23:10 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Under that approach, the nation would build more but much smaller power plants so that small businesses and even individual homes could have them. True, such systems would burn costly natural gas - but at twice the energy efficiency of today's grid - to produce both heat and electricity for homeowners. If such systems caught on, they could vastly reduce load demand on central power stations and slash the need to build new power plants. Let's see if I have this right....the bulk of the population is impacted by $3/gal for gasoline. And they think it just might "catch on" for homeowners to buy their own private power plant...? Would that include the 10s of thousands of Adelphi workers getting layed off? "Tough choices had to be made, and we had to realign priorities," writes Christina Kielich, a DOE spokeswoman in an e-mail. You can always count on the Dept spokesperson to give you the straight unvarnished truth. :o] Thatnks for the story. Interesting. jttmab