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Generating electricity

voska1 8th Dec 2008

Oddly enough if you did generate electricity it could be very cost effective if you have enough money up front. You guarantee your power supply and the price you pay for power. Next you can sell the excess off at profit. So in way you'd get free electricity by subsidizing the cost of generation with the sale of the excess.

In IT I've seen this exact same concept work. I've seen developers build a in house solution that they could have bought. The benefit is they get a solution that fits 100% instead of buying off the shelf solutions that at best fit 50% and come with tons of functionality you will never use but you have paid for. Then if you product is good enough similiar businesses might be willing to buy you software as well. So if done right you could write you own custom solutions while subsidizing that developement by selling you solution source included to other companies to use and modify. In return they could sell you back the source modifications they made.

We do that where I work and we generate our own electricity too.