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Remember Sad Socket? More on "perfect power"
A while back I made a posting or two about the Galvin Electricity Initiative. This is an organization that is advocating for major upgrades of our electric power distribution systems. I contacted their press office asking for some technical information on the nature of the upgrades the organization is suggesting, and they responded some time ago. (It is reassuring to know that it doesn't involve cold fusion, antimatter, or perpetual motion technology.)
In fact, if you have some time on your hands, they have published a major paper in cooperation with EPRI on some of their specific ideas. You can download it as a PDF. I've read parts of it, and what I've gone through makes sense. There are many opportunities for us to make power use more efficient, which can help us reduce energy consumption and our carbon footprint with minimal impact on lifestyle issues.
Bear in mind that some of the changes would be characterized as pretty drastic from an infrastructure standpoint. For example, changing from AC to DC power distribution won't exactly happen overnight. But it won't ever happen if we don't start thinking about it sometime. Until then, we can still turn off the extra lights.
Remember Sad Socket? More on "perfect power"
May 6, 2008
A while back I made a posting or two about the Galvin Electricity Initiative. This is an organization that is advocating for major upgrades of our electric power distribution systems. I contacted their press office asking for some technical information on the nature of the upgrades the organization is suggesting, and they responded some time ago. (It is reassuring to know that it doesn't involve cold fusion, antimatter, or perpetual motion technology.)In fact, if you have some time on your hands, they have published a major paper in cooperation with EPRI on some of their specific ideas. You can download it as a PDF. I've read parts of it, and what I've gone through makes sense. There are many opportunities for us to make power use more efficient, which can help us reduce energy consumption and our carbon footprint with minimal impact on lifestyle issues.
Bear in mind that some of the changes would be characterized as pretty drastic from an infrastructure standpoint. For example, changing from AC to DC power distribution won't exactly happen overnight. But it won't ever happen if we don't start thinking about it sometime. Until then, we can still turn off the extra lights.
Posted by Peter Welander on May 6, 2008 | Comments (0)
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