US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com)

mdsolar writes with this story from Smithsonian magazine about how building a national transmission network could lead to a gigantic reduction in carbon emissions. From the story: "The United States could lower carbon emissions from electricity generation by as much as 78 percent without having to develop any new technologies or use costly batteries, a new study suggests. There's a catch, though. The country would have to build a new national transmission network so that states could share energy. 'Our idea was if we had a national 'interstate highway for electrons' we could move the power around as it was needed, and we could put the wind and solar plants in the very best places,' says study co-author Alexander MacDonald, who recently retired as director of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado."

Comments

Re:Mdsolar strikes again with unrealistic FUD

[fahrbot-bot]

Construction equipment doesn't run on lithium batteries.

My cordless drill does - checkmate. :-)

Re: Keep dreaming.

[WarJolt]

Just tell them it's like an electric bridge to nowhere and they will fund it. They don't need to know how it works.

Re:Mdsolar strikes again with unrealistic FUD

[mvdwege]

And MSR's finally also provide everyone with a pony.

We've all heard this before. 60 years ago people said the exact same thing about LWRs and PWRs. Frankly, the nuclear industry has promised the moon so many times before, and failed us so many times on an organisational level, that they have not a lot of credibility left.