The electrical power industry was created and developed to be one of the most powerful industries in the world. Throughout time the industry has created a power paradigm of utilities, monopoly and franchise, central power stations and transmission lines. Nevertheless Bill Mollison offers alternative energy solutions that include producing and supplying power to our communities.
Hence this brings up the question, do we really need big central power plants and transmission lines? Are these completely indispensable in order to have electricity? The truth is "there are many energy alternatives", as Bill Mollison says.
There's a small mediaeval german town I've visited a several times called Mainz. Mainz don't have any visible transmission lines in the entire city. When they reconstructed it after WWII, they put all the transmission lines underground. Now, the power never goes out in spite of weather conditions. Also, doing a little bit of research of the town, I found that instead of having big central power plants, they are utilizing the design of their buildings to put solar panels and generate the needed energy. One incredible building they inaugurated in 2011 was a soccer field/stadium. Isn't cool?
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