Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

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Gore Mistake

Al is making a big mistake with marketing this plan.

Power transmission is extremely inefficient, and the infrastructure is very costly to maintain. This cannot change with a ?smart grid?, because no grid is smart enough to outwit physics.

Its real simple, electricity is a flow of electrons and as it travels through power lines there are very wasteful and expensive losses. Power lines are an old technology and long distance transmission is just wasting precious energy.

And then Al wants us to forget the math and think we can take emerging tech like solar energy, which at its very best is only 40% efficient and then transmit that power over long distances. Talk about an electric bill going up!

What we need is more decentralized transmission so impacts of outages are minimal. Lets keep investing in fuel cells which could power neighborhoods, or heck even individual homes.

Posted by: jeffhere   Posted on: 11/09/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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