East Coast outage?
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hackerwacker at tarpit.cybermesa.com
Sun Aug 17 17:01:29 UTC 2003
On Saturday 16 August 2003 04:54 pm, Having folded space, the Third Stage
Guild Navigator said:
> Thus spake "Petri Helenius" <pete at he.iki.fi>
>
> > > > subsidize) local power generation via renewable energy sources
(e.g.
> > > > solar, wind, hydro) it would go a long way towards solving this
>
> problem.
>
> > > Rubbish.
> > >
> > > If in order to make it viable such energy needs to be subsidized
then
> > > it
>
> is
>
> > > not "affordable".
> >
> > And solar nor wind are good for base energy production so we´re stuck
> > with other methods unless you want to move IP packets only when it´s
> > windy.
>
> Or you store excess power generated on windy/sunny days for later
> distribution on calm/rainy days:
> http://www.tva.gov/sites/raccoonmt.htm
>
> That still ignores tidal, hydro, and geothermal power, which are
available
> 24x7. And let's not forget ethanol, which is easy to make from excess
food
> crops and has already replaced gasoline entirely in a few countries.
Use hydrogen. One solar panel (which will last forever unless you drop
something on it) can split H2O into H and O. Store the H for windless days
or at night. Feed this to a turbine for electricity and recover heat for hot
water, store it in a heat sink, ect. Or feed the H into a fuel cell &
strip off the electron volts. Now a home user can produce wattage to
supply power for his neighbors. The amount of power to be had via these
hydrogen processes is huge. Now, try to take out this decentralized power
system. You can't, at least not on the scale we saw last week.
The by-products of this are water and Oxygen. Hydrogen is our new battery.
Please don't go on about it's storage dangers ! LPG (bottle gas) has been
used for quite some time and the safety is . We all drive mobile hydrogen
bombs, and show no concern.
The only problem is that the Oil men are in charge. They want to pipe NG
to houses and have us crack NG into hydrogen. Cut the cord !
To stay on topic, consider the long term savings in generating DC
directly, via a clean source, instead of converting AC to DC at colos.
We pay dearly for the amps on those A and B legs. Replace the multiple
utility service feeds, gennys, batt rooms, and DC chargers with a
hydrogen feed turbine for each leg. Recover the heat for cooling.
< end of rant by long haired *nix based hippie >
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