"Ninety-seven percent are committed within homes, 3percentt by strangers".
In developing countries, small-scale anaerobic digesters can provide fuel for cooking and lighting within homes.
An alternative approach is to generate electricity within homes and commercial buildings using a device called a fuel cell – essentially a large battery with a replenishable fuel source.
It is a form of terrorism which takes place within homes and communities around the UK, silently hiding under the face of family life and domesticity.
Vonage and others are already working with equipment vendors to make portable handsets based on short-range Wi-Fi technology, for use within homes and offices.
The wireless networks based on 802.11b are also becoming popular as a convenient and low-cost way to create a network within homes already connected to the Internet through D.S.L. or cable modems.
Electricity wires have previously been used to transmit information within homes and local networks, such as rows of street lights, by sending very high frequency data alongside the standard 50Hz signal.
The disadvantage of the 802.11a standard, according to industry executives, is that it tends to do a poor job of penetrating walls within homes, and as a result has poorer range.
While WiFi makes sense within homes, offices and universities, says Dr Jacobs, he is not convinced that current efforts to build commercial WiFi hotspots will succeed.Suggesting that CDMA will triumph over WiFi is daring enough.
The launch coincides with the announcement today by the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, of details of loans for green homes, and is ahead of the start of the government's feed-in tariff, which rewards electricity generation within homes.
