Get rid of the grid. Local micro nuclear plants for all.
BBC was spruiking the following this week on its World Business Report. plenty of laughs:
3 Apr: Bloomberg: China Wants to Power the World
A Global Energy Interconnection would create a supergrid that spans the globe.
By Adam Minter
(China’s State Grid Corporation) Chairman Liu Zhenya has a plan that he believes will stall global warming, put millions of people to work and bring about world peace by 2050...
Among other benefits, according to Liu, the system will produce “a community of common destiny for all mankind with blue skies and green land.”...
State Grid estimates it would cost $50 trillion to develop a truly global grid...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-03/china-s-state-grid-wants-to-power-the-whole-world
Wow,”smart” people are so smart. I am a nobody and could come to this conclusion in way fewer words.
The grid is a white elephant in the making. A hot potato that no one wants to be responsible for when energy production and storage are localized.
Not too long ago, 0bama and sleepy Joe were looking for shovel ready jobs.
They claimed no shovel ready jobs to be found
They did not build the wall
They did not manage the forests in california
They did not rebuild the grid
“Renewable” is deceptive. The vast bulk of that 17.5% is hydro and that is not expanding. The rest are boondoggles whose expense is crushing the grid.