[Noisebridge-discuss] interesting projects

[Joel Jaeggli]

It's easier to push that activity upstream, I pay for 100% windpower yet
I have the same feed as my neighbor.

joel

On 11/30/10 12:29 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org writes:
> 
>> He then went on to remind me that his marginal (top tier) electrical
>> costs are six times lower (in TX) than ours.  So it'd be six times more
>> valuable here than there, and he figures it could pay for itself in a
>> year down there.
> 
> This might be a bad thing ecologically, but I have wondered whether
> someone could make money by arbitraging electricity between utility
> customers who are paying different rates.  I haven't tried to
> calculate whether this is plausible, though.  (It's obviously
> plausible between households in different housing units in the same
> building, using extension cables.)
>