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To: Kevmo; Ronin; Trod Upon

My dad is a nuclear engineer and mechanical engineer who is retired from managing thermal operations for a privately owned utility. For decades I’ve heard him expound on the ever increasing demand on PUDs to provide cheap energy to private residences v. the demands of businesses for electricity at reasonable rates.

I can tell you one thing that jumps out at me about this scenario: the price of electricity on the grid will drop as demand from private residences drop.

A huge Reynolds aluminum plant shut down some twenty years ago in Longview, Washington, because the price of electricity from the Bonnevile Power Authority had shot up. I do not believe it will be resurrected by the advent of e-cat technology, but I do believe enough people will buy e-cats that the overall demand for electricity will sag and prices will drop. This portends a great opportunity for energy hungry industries to rebound.


49 posted on 11/22/2011 11:36:01 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: SatinDoll

What do you think ‘works’.?


50 posted on 11/22/2011 11:45:01 PM PST by allmost
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To: SatinDoll

This portends a great opportunity for energy hungry industries to rebound.
***Good to know. Like airlines, shipbuilding, coal-powered electrical plants, desalinization, recreation (swimming pools, hot tubs), automotive, even manufacturing.


51 posted on 11/22/2011 11:47:08 PM PST by Kevmo (When a thing is owned by everybody nobody gives value to it. Communism taught us this. ~A. Rossi)
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