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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I wonder if it's time to scrap the idea of transmitting power all around 
the country. As the price of PVs comes down, I would think it would make 
more sense to have smaller neighborhood or individual power generation.

Lynn Wigglesworth

bob ford wrote:
> Jerry and others understand this subject better than me.  I thought it was 
> an interesting article .....bobford
> 
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> "Wind turbines and solar panels have become the icons of renewable energy. 
> But renewable energy is only as effective as the infrastructure that moves 
> it around: the electrical grid.
> 
> Cool devices to harness pollution-free energy won't do much to lessen the 
> country's fossil-fuel dependence unless aging and unsophisticated 
> infrastructure is vastly updated to transmit it."
> 
> .........."The current electric grid has two basic shortcomings. It's not 
> big enough to accommodate all the new electricity the nation is likely to 
> need in coming decades,regardless of how that electricity is produced. And 
> it's not flexible enough to handle the inconsistencies of renewable energy, 
> which is less steady than the workhorses of coal and natural gas; the wind 
> doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine.
> 
> In other words, it's dumb. It's not sophisticated enough to minimize 
> electricity waste by allowing, for instance, power companies and consumer 
> appliances to communicate about fluctuations in energy supply and demand.
> ........."
> 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122479941639164453.html
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