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There doesn’t even appear to be a debate.

If one group of people–somehow–attains a certain amount of wealth and another group appears cut out, you just take a chunk of wealth from the first group and pass it onto the latter. Voila. Everyone is equal again.

Except, that history proves that wealth distribution doesn’t survive its initial pay checks and can actually make things worse. In the early days of the 20th century, Russia tried to redistribute wealth. The Czars became premiers. The boyars became commissars. But the poor people remained poor. Maybe poorer.

Still, wealth and power remained in the hands of a few.

In the Western world, trillions upon trillions of dollars, Euros, yens, pounds, francs, and Deutsche marks, have been redistributed. Somehow, that money continues to find its way back to the same groups.

Wealth distribution will not work, but there is something that will be far more effective.

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What if you had a party and didn’t send out invitations.

Well, you would either get really bored… or, maybe, really drunk, depending on what type of party you were having.

The same thing might happen with the new energy technology party that is just getting underway. New energy technology–whether its wind, solar, wave, nuclear, etc.–is useless if it can’t be distributed, as the Technology Review points out.

The key will be creating an improved grid that can handle the distribution of this power. But, according to others, improving the grid is just using an old answer to a new question. The grid is about energy distribution… what if we didn’t need to distribute anything?

In other words, if solar energy becomes super efficient and super cheap in the future and if batteries become more efficient in storing excess energy, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that people could create and consume the energy they collected themselves? People could still use the grid to sell back the energy they don’t use as an emergency source of energy and to run industrial operations.

I’d like to hear what my friend at Power and Control blog has to say on this…

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