What’s So Bad About Big?

“SMALL is beautiful,” wrote the economist E. F. Schumacher almost 35 years ago. In most areas of the economy, he reasoned, production had become too big and too centralized.

When it comes to alternative ways of generating power, big may be better.

Wind, solar and other renewable-energy technologies that were once considered more appropriate for single homes or small communities are reaching levels of scale and centralizing that were formerly the province of coal- and gas-fired plants and nuclear reactors. In other words, green is going giant.

More to the point, Mr. Rifkin said, home-grown energy is going to be cheaper. “It’s a question of who owns and controls it at the end of the line,” he said. “If you own it on your own, it’s going to be at a cheaper price than if the utility company is going to sell it to you.”

Este es solo un breve resumen, siento que este en inglés, lo tenéis en: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/business/businessspecial2/07big.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1296248090-B3NnvkMvzwiiYcJl4rk0Fg