answer:To clarify, I’ve been thinking about a lot of different question systems: Ask-public, the questions that are asked on News.yc, reddit, the new programming forum proposed by Joel Spolsky, and was wondering what the benefits were of centralizing. Is it a worthy cause to try integrating ask-public comments into a system like that or vice versa? The same goes for energy systems. As we pump up the grid with distributed renewable energy, should we start creating isolated, self sustaining grids, or is it better to mix it all together in a soup of coal, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, hamster?