[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 4/16/08 6:32 PM, "Timothy Little" <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:

> Or do you just mean as targets, terrorising the neighbourhood with the
> threats of inconvenience and food spoilage?

And *that* is the biggest argument against small scale power!

Yes, most people, most of the time, *are* more concerned about food spoilage
than about terrorism.

You have to have a distribution network in each neighborhood, which is
*most* of the network expense.  Then you need connections between
neighborhoods, for enough redundancy when a plant *does* fail (and with
100,000's to millions of them around on 1 planet, that's going to be a lot
of failures every day).

That doesn't look much different from the full grid we have now.