Why are you managing your own power plant?

Terrible metaphor!: Distributed power generation is both efficient and robust
(in the true scientific sense of "stands up to perturbations
and disruptive influences"). If we lose long-distance power
lines in an ice storm, it'll be sweet to have at least a trickle
of power and a plug to stick a space heater into--too bad
we don't have a few thousand panels in the neighborhood.
I don't know if this means every company should have at
least one or two IT guys, however--metaphors are not a
form of logic, they are a form of rhetoric. They are all, by
definition, imperfect parallels to some degree.; Posted by: Joy_in_Pgh Posted on: 12/13/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Generating electricity voska1 | 12/08/08

But what if? Kazabet | 12/15/08

Missing the Point chuck.russell@... | 12/09/08

Terrible metaphor! Joy_in_Pgh | 12/13/08

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