I was listening to an NPR podcast on my subway ride home today and heard Nancy Pelosi say, “Renewable energy will mean nothing if there’s not a grid to transmit it.” Well…that’s only if we focus on grid level solutions to our energy problems. But if we focus on distributed power, in the same way we’ve mastered distributed computing, then her comment is not so true. Distributed power is all about solutions within the grid, at the local level. It’s not about distributing power from wind farms

Read more: 
Nancy Pelosi on Renewable Energy