Travel Nightmare: Lockdown on plugs
Jan 6, 2009
Great posting by Ed Kohler about a terrible new trend in US airports: Charging for electricity. Ed took these photos at the Cincinnati airport. The scary part is how the SmartCarte machine locks down access to electricity, creating a monopoly on the suddenly scarce resource. As blogged earlier, power is one crucial in Maslow’s Hierarchy











Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the