Battles with Integrity

Warning: this is based solely on the NYT article as I can't listen to video at the moment.

Cell-phone minutes plans only work because minutes aren't tangible objects which are stockpiled and maintained in strategic locations but windows of time on the RF spectrum communicating with existing networks. Batteries are currently expensive, heavy, environmentally unfriendly, and high maintenance -- not ethereal abstractions.

This is about as crazy as suggesting that bridge capacity can be expanded by placing tons of pontoon bridges at current bridges -- all you have to do is just float out the pontoons and open up lanes. Yay.

The assumptions required for this idea to be viable exceed my personal limits of credulity. I have no problem resisting the urge to be passionate. :-)