Also, I didn't see in the article any discussion of dissipation of energy during long distance transmission.
Yes, let’s nationalize the electric grid. Because EVERYTHING the feds do works out perfectly.
A better idea: let's require states to be self sufficient in electrical generation, and let Massachusetts freeze in the dark.
Unscientific lunacy. Sure it maybe could be done but rates would put electricity out of reach for most Americans. Think $0.35-.50/kwh.
Liars
I smell B.S. (not you Lorianne)
And rationing. NO JUICE FOR YOU!
There is no doubt any elec grids we have could likely be run more or designed more efficiently, but I take issue with the great need to get off fossil fuels, which in the US, have become far more efficient and cleaner. Wind and solar are not economical without subsidies.
I smell some D grade humanities majors there.
Not going to happen.
Someone really was an enemy of math at the Smithsonian.
Left-wing, poorly written screed. Subscribe or read to lose brain cells ... Just more of the constant barrage of left-wing agenda items which fill its glossy pages. If you watch PBS or listen to NPR, this is the magazine for you.
Those items no obviously part of the agenda are so poorly written that they end up either as meaningless drivel about what looks like an interesting subject, or wander all over the subject without ever pinning the subject down.
Also, I didn’t see in the article any discussion of dissipation of energy during long distance transmission.
A friend of mine, head of the local college physics department, told me that our first priority should be superconductors. I asked why it wasn’t. Because buried superconducting transmission lines aren’t a great photo op for politicians like windmills and solar panel farms he said.
wet dream
it seems so real
like she said
“Sweet dreams of
you every night I go through”
This already exists. The national grid crosses state boundaries and often power generated in one state is used in another. This author is ignorant of the subject matter. As for doing without fossil fuels, this works only if you ignore math entirely.
Smithsonian = Liberal non thinkers.
Nope, doesn't work that way. It's not the individual electrons that move from A to B but the energy stored in the alternating electric field. And from Dakota to NY you might be looking at a 90% transmission loss.
No. There are power losses over long distances. Wind farms are destructive of the local environment. Use solar, and develop means to store and release energy during the night. This does not have to be with batteries.
Yup; another bid at total centralization for the purpose of tyrannical micromanagement of all the subjects’ lives. Of course, from the enemy’s perspective, it’s all the easier to hack into and cause even more widespread chaos than with the flawed present system.
Socialized energy production.
100% renewables with no storage? The authors of the study are on crack. There is ZERO solar production at night and very little in the early morning or late afternoon hours. Even if you had a national grid, you probably have 8 or 9 hours every day when there is zero solar energy produced across all of CONUS. Plus, the wind dies down at night without solar heating of the terrain. That seems to me to be a totally implausible concept.
Now I’ll go scan the article to see how they plan to overcome this teensy problem.
Lastly, have you ever noticed that these articles never say how much of our nation’s magnificent scenery and vistas will be permanently despoiled, how many animals, birds and insects will be killed, and how the constant thrump-thrump-thrump of windmills will drive people insane for miles around the “wind farm”?
The biggest of a long string of BIG LIES.
All this crap is based on the lie that CO2 emissions mean something bad. The only reason CO2 is the big boogey-man is because auto emissions have been completely cleaned up to leave exhaust containing only water vapor and CO2.
The green-weenie communists can't go after water vapor, so guess what.
If CO2 were gasoline, there isn't enough in the atmosphere to power a pissant's motorcycle.