Can Washington Power Up American Inventiveness?

[Thinker4Life]

I agree with chuck's question... Alot of these companies only care about finding a way to charge for the energy rather then just releasing the technology to the population...

[exenrontexas]

I worked for ENRON before Ken Lay and in the mid eighties they worked on various remote sensing of natural gas pipeline pressure and operability. Many compressor stations are unmanned and run from a centralized gas control dept. This was done 24 years ago and I cannot imagine that the electric industry is that far behind. One of the problems was communications to remote sites with no phone, net or radio service. Satellite was far too expensive. They ended using some meteor burst technology.

[BeantownJim]

Washington couldn't even power up a sex toy!