Fuel Cell Performance

>to air conditioning loads. Solar cells are ideally suited to meeting
>this peak demand, since they produce energy at exactly the right time.
>If peak loads can be handled by solar cells, then there is
>significantly less need for centralized power plants. A decentralized
>production system is also much more robust to black outs of the kind
>we've seen recently and much less vulnerable to terrorist attack. The
>key to making this work economically are electric meters than charge
>not only by the amount of electricity used, but also by the time it is
>used. This is as practiced by the grid itself for major energy
>transfers. This, not pork for the energy producers, is what we need in
>a national energy bill.