Monday, January 17, 2005

Make your own energy!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a9NnRdFmKWIw&refer=canada

So the Ontario government announced that small environmentally friendly power generation schemes can sell their extra power to the grid for market price. I am so pleased about this, I can't even believe it. I find it hard to imagine that Ontario still gets a quarter of it's power from coal plants. My godfather, who is from near the University of Illinois, which has it's own coal plant, forwarded the opinion that we should fix up the coal burning plants so that they release fewer emissions and resign ourselves to using coal plants. While I agree that the coal plants should release less toxic gas into the atmosphere, I'm really liking the idea of buying power from private citizens.

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