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hi

below passsage comes from the paper "Bursting Tech Bubbles Before They Balloon" By "Marina Gorbis" and "David Pescovitz".


And that’s just the beginning of the new, light infrastructure. Today, flipping on a light switch is an act of faith in the central utilities that serve our cities. They sell, we buy. However, distributed power systems could lead to energy markets where any of us can deal in juice.

what is meant by this paragraph: (from **broken link removed**)

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"Today, flipping on a light switch is an act of faith in the central utilities that serve our cities. They sell, we buy. However, distributed power systems could lead to energy markets where any of us can deal in juice."

That means we rely upon the electricity suppliers (also known as "utility companies" or "utilities") but if distributed power systems were used we could all be electricity suppliers (or users).

For example, if we had wind turbines for our houses but were not using the generated power we could feed it onto the grid and sell it.
 

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I agree with Rob B, his explanation is very good.
 

thanks my friends

what is the textual meaning of "act of faith" in above passage

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Mostafa
 

Act of faith means that you assume that something is true without a clear proof.
Faith is something that someone has or not: you do not need a demonstration.
In my opinion that expression is used to say that the possibility to switch on the light in our houses is completely dependent by the utility companies which provide us that service: we are sure that they will always sell us the electricity even if they are not obliged to do it forever.

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Mowgli
 

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