Chemical Engineer <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: The grid of the future is no grid (existing grid will transistion to a hot > backup for some time)
That's what I said in my book, chapter 14. I discussed this with a lot of power company and EPRI people. Abandoning the distribution network will save a tremendous amount of money over the long term. Of course it will take a long time. > Distributed power systems will prevail long term since fuel and electrical > distribution/transmission costs & upkeep go towards zero $ and a > distributed system is much safer during war . . . > I hope that war will not be an issue in the future. A few days after 9/11, Bush flew to N.Y.C. He looked out of the window of the airplane and said, "this is the first war of the 21st century." When I read that I thought, "I was hoping there wouldn't be any more damned wars in this century, or any any century to come." People may feel that is a unrealistic hope but I do not see why. At least in the First World we have eliminated slavery, child labor, filthy drinking water and many other social evils that used to kill a lot more people than war did. I don't see why we can't eliminate war. It is no more ingrained in human nature than these other evils we eliminated. - Jed
