Interlude: your bull detector
By now, many BS detectors will be ringing at full volume. I get it. This sounds like magic beans.
And this is a field full of magic beans. Manifestos promising revolutionary energy solutions (if only The Establishment weren’t suppressing them) abound. I get those emails myself.
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The only part of the article that seemed credible.
They lost me at the ADT ad
I'm just a poor, retired physicist turned software developer in his retirement and will defer to any EE who can prove otherwise, but there are two "tells" in this article for me: 1) The SDE engineers "reject" DOE's claims about where electrical losses occur. That sends up a red flag immediately, because matching inputs to outputs and knowing what transmission losses occur in the middle is not something you get wrong by orders of magnitude. [Which is part of the basis of their claims.] 2) Eventually, they get around to the "this is too important to be trusted to capitalism, because there are too many big boys who want our grid to be dirty and wasteful." Oh ... horsesh!t. They soft-peddle this line with a good bit more subtlety than most, but it's in there, which puts it in the conspiracy theory world of hoaxsters like Rossi, guys with perpetual motion machines, "zero point" energy scams, and pills that can turn water into gasoline.
Finally, just the basic physics of this is bothersome. In order to swallow the premise you have to believe that the transfer functions of most devices connected to the grid are tremendously sensitive to harmonic and other kinds of distortion, and this is simply not true, and you can't make it true by claiming you compute 26 different parameters of power quality and run them through an advanced computer with an AI to improve the power quality along those two dozen-odd axes.
It's too bad the redoubtable Kevmo® is no longer with us. SDE sounds like it would go perfectly with one of his Cold Fusion Generators.