[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/2/08, Vinay Gupta <hexayurt at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://smallisprofitable.org
>
>  I was part of the editorial team for this (polishes fingernails.)

Cool!  I'm a big fan of Lovins and the rest of the RMI team's work.

>  Proves beyond a reasonable doubt that if you were providing first-world
> quality electrical services today, from a standing start (no grid etc.
> already) you would provide better services at lower cost using a
> decentralized energy generation strategy involving a lot (but not 100% yet!)
> renewables.
>
>  The Economist's Book of the Year 2003.
>
>  So, yeah, this is no joke. It can be done for things like electricity, and
> if it's true there, it's not unreasonable to think there's a lot of other
> plces where this may be true.
>
>  There's a book, "The Second Industrial Divide" which Marcin and Smari say
> makes about the same case for light manufacturing, and that was written in
> the 1980s.

Is it by Piore and Sable?  I'll have to get a copy, and soon.

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