It is unknown it an examiner filed a patent for a "method and device to move the mouse to defraud taxpayers."
The Bible says "Do not kill".
Anyone arguing for death penalty is against God and will go to hell.
actually it says murder not kill in the original language.
You're making it way too complicated. The power-line company can buy power from whoever is providing, and sell power to whoever is consuming. Just like they do now with home solar power. They can make whatever agreements they like with generating companies as to who gets what share of demand, what response times are required, etc. Add some grid-scale power buffers, even just a few minutes worth, and things get even simpler. While the electrons are on the line they belong to the distribution company, just like while products are in Walmart's distribution channel they belong to Walmart.
Not all products belong to the company selling them. For example Coke, Pepsi, and Frito-Lay commonly lease shelf space and stock product set price themselves while the selling is still handled by the store itself.
Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla. If you do choose to live in such places, it is important to be prepared, and have an emergency kit. In which you can just pack in a good ole' FM battery.
I dunno, a large fraction of America is under threat from the first three of those natural disasters.
Hurricanes can strike essentially the entire southeast quarter of the country with devastating force, and can even hit further north along the Atlantic coast. They're possible on the Pacific coast, too, but much less likely, I believe.
Tornadoes are common in more or less the middle third.
Earthquakes are only highly common in California (that I know of offhand), but can be something of a threat in other areas as well (the more so with all the fracking that's been going on).
But there are other natural disasters to watch out for, too. The one that comes most readily to mind is wildfires, which affect the entire west, particularly now that it's been in a severe drought for years.
So that leaves the inland Northeast, and some of the northern Midwest and Rockies. I don't think "most of us" live in those areas.
(I do, though, and I'm very happy that the closest thing to a natural disaster I have to deal with is the occasional—read, about once every decade or so—2-4 foot snowstorm.)
Dan Aris
Then there is the Pacific Northwest (Seattle Tacoma Olympia Portland) area we have a descent number of volcanoes and earth quakes tsunami are all risks. Also it floods fairly regularly in certain areas around here.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.