One Worldwide Power Grid

randomned writes "A little ironic that this article on a world wide power grid was published in the September issue of Wired. With the recent outage on in the northeast, think of what could've happened if the entire world was on one grid." As someone who spent 23 and a half hours without power, I'm thinking this is a brilliant plan!

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Re:Electricity must be ubiquitious

[Ex-MislTech]

I agree with your arguement toa point .

The long haul transmission lines are not needed IMHO .

We can work off metro based solutions .

The only exceptions I could see to this would be to
tap alternative power sources like Hydro .

It is now common knowledge that if all countries in the
world switched to nuclear power, we would run out of
material to power them in just a few decades .

The nuclear waste left behind in countries even less
scrupulous than the US is cause for concern as well .

I think nuke power needs to be phased out over the
next 20 years .

I think tidal, and geo-therm need to be given more interest .

The bay of fundy is the largest potential tidal power generator
in the entire world, moving more water every 12 hrs than all
the rivers in the world combined .

It is just off the coast of canada near Nova Scotia .

We need to not make a reservoir system there, it would destroy
the ecosystem, underwater turbines or a flotation hydraulic
based system would work best and have the least environmental
impact .

France's tidal power generation system has had a negative
impact, we can learn from that and make a better one .

Theirs uses a dam to hold back water, and then release, and
make power on the flow . Not sure if it makes it bidirectionally
or not .

The grid currently wastes 9% - 15% just in Transmission .

http://www.ramgen.com/about_doe.html

Thus why I say make it locally .

Smith Cogeneration has found a way via natural gas to make
it for less and use the energy to its fullest .

http://www.smithcogen.com/aboutcogeneration.htm

The VAST majority of the population lives within 75 miles
of the coast , design this into the equation .

Transport energy "natural gas" via high pressure pipelines
from high pressure gas wells to coastal areas .

When we can move to alternative power, then make the gradual
switch over as time permits .

After all we cannot make the switch over night .

Peace,
Ex-MislTech