dear Roberto, we would be happy to serialize your findings if you have time to select parts of your book,
Michel On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact you don't have to go nano or wait for other esoteric and > untested technologies for renewable technologies to undermine the > current energy paradigms. > > Rooftop solar is now spreading rapidly due to the continuing declines > in solar panel prices, enabling households to generate their own > electricity. This creates a situation where they will be sending their > surplus to the grid some of the time, and getting their additional > supply from the grid at some other times. Thus, they will be engaging > in peering arrangements with the grid itself, which are actually P2P > transactions. At some point when P2P transactions over the grid exceed > the amount that central power plants provide to non-generating > customers, the grid will start taking on more and more the nature of a > public commons. Then we should see the same kinds of debates between > privatized infrastructures and the commons that have arisen elsewhere. > > I also discussed in the paper how microhydro and microwind, by getting > smaller instead of larger, and if this can result in one or a few > orders of magnitude price reductions, as happened with integrated > circuits, can put them in production levels where the economics of > increasing returns to scale is activated. > > By the way, I've written a separate paper analyzing the P2P > transactions between the grid and solar owners under net metering. > Those who are interested may google "pseudo-net-metering double-charges > customers". This may be very relevant to countries where net metering > is implemented and where utilities insist on charging lower than retail > price, which results in double-charging. I use very simple math in the > paper to show exactly where the double-charging happens. > > Requiring net metering is such an important policy enabler for > microsolar, that utilities are now campaigning very hard against it. > > A lot of exciting things, such as battery storage costs starting on a > downhill trend, are happening in the renewables area. I urge people to > look more closely into this sector, if you haven't yet. > > Some of these are discussed in my book Crossing Over: The Energy > Transition to Renewable Electricity, published last year but also > freely available online (just google the title). > > The sector will also need in the near future new paradigms and business > models to properly appropriate the new values created by the new types > of P2P energy exchanges that are emerging. > > Greetings to all, > > Roberto > > > > > Greetings to all, > > Roberto > > > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 02:47:24 +0100 > Orsan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The title got me think of real micro- or nano-turbine technologies > > being developed to produce electricity. For instance, if used inside > > water pipes and ways, such technology would turn entire city and > > rural delivery and sanitation systems more productive at the micro > > and nano levels then huge dams and other smaller central hydro > > electricity generators. Something like this could complete the > > convergence between energy and communication technologies as in > > Rifkin's theory, at the same physical level. While thinking on this > > remembered once seeing a working nano-engine being used at an > > experiment at CERN at the atomic level. Of course if engine do exist > > then tribune should also be so. Googled "nano tribune electricity" > > and found that it does exist, and developed: > > http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=27983.php > > http://www.homepower.ca/dc_hydro.htm In case collectively opened up, > > peer to peer produced, and implemented, these really micro power > > technologies would not only destroy the state and corporate monopoly > > over the energy production, but also Harvey's pessimistic argument > > about we people's being dependent on central structures for the > > creation and maintenance of large infrastructures and services, as > > dams, roads, hospitals and schools. If Sensorica, or any open science > > groups would go towards this direction, it would obviously more > > impactful than it sounds. Best, Orsan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On 8 jan. 2016, at 23:23, Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > I just finished the piece "Can micropower be as deep a game-changer > > > as microprocessing?" It can be downloaded at: > > > > > > > https://rverzola.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/can-micropower-become-as-deep-a-game-changer-as-microprocessing/ > > > > > > By "deep", I mean being able to change the rules of the game not > > > only within the industry itself but in society as a whole. In the > > > piece, I note that the declining prices of renewables such as solar > > > and wind seem to have brought the renewables sector at the same > > > take-off point that microprocessing was some three decades ago. > > > > > > I analyze the developments from the perspective I've been pursuing, > > > which is the perspective of abundance. I note that these declining > > > prices, exponential increases in production, and expanding markets > > > are bringing these renewables into operating points where the > > > economics of increasing returns to scale start to take-over, > > > leading to a virtuous cycle of more rounds of price declines and > > > higher production, the same kind of economic growth pattern we have > > > seen in the information sector. These are typical features of the > > > onset of abundance. > > > > > > I discuss in the piece what might be the conditions that can make > > > small-scale generation with renewables as deep a game-changer as > > > microprocessors have been. > > > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > > > Roberto Verzola > > > Philippines > > > > > > PS. Those who want more details about developments in renewables > > > from the perspective of a developing country, you can also download > > > my recent book, CROSSING OVER: THE ENERGY TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE > > > ELECTRICITY. Just google the title. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:03:57 +0700 > > > Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> see > > >> > http://excellencereporter.com/2016/01/07/michel-bauwens-the-meaning-that-we-give-to-life/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > > > > > Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net > > > Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > > > > > Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge > > > commons by making a donation. 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