Ok, Zap, thanks. Now for an on-topic matter, one of the urgent needs today in the local solar industry is a lower-cost grid-tie inverter, that is at least as good and pref. better than China-made ones. This is a business opportunity for local entrepreneurs. The inverter has to implement MPPT (max. power pt tracking) on the input side has to meet intl standards (IEEE, UL, etc) on the output side.
I can imagine a controller running real-time Linux inside such GTI. I've seen three major technological revolutions in our time (and was active in two of them). The desktop, the cellphone, and the Internet. Lots of people who dove early made money (well, a few also lost money). My interest is in the social implications of these tech. upheavals. The fourth one will be distributed generation revolution, driven mostly by solar rooftop. Utilities have already branded this development as a destructive technology. The earlier three were too. (Who uses mainframes today? Or landlines, or buys a newspaper?). This is something even the poor can eventually join (just like vendors today have cellphones.) The fifth will be the battery storage revolution, for which very intense research is going on today in several industries: lapstops/netbooks, mobile phones, electric cars, and of course, solar wind and othere variable energy sources. Once it happens, centralized generation will go the way of mainframes and landline phones. They will not disappear, but their role will be highly diminished. Reminder: my book that discusses these in more detail and was launched by the publisher last Tuesday in UP can be downloaded for free, just google the title: Crossing Over: The Energy Transition to Renewable Electricity. And thanks for the use of this list, where I can still reach my old IT friends from way back. Obet On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:14:14 +0800 Zak Elep <[email protected]> wrote: > Friendly reminder that there's still a plug-misc mailing list, to > avoid triggering some folks :) > > That said, thanks for keeping us aware of the power issue! If only we > could respond it with a sysctl call... > On Mar 27, 2015 11:53 AM, "Roberto Verzola" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear pluggers, > > > > Here's my interview yesterday (March 25, Wed 9am) with Howie > > Severino in his News To Go program, on my "No brownouts in summer" > > proposal. > > > > > > http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/459298/scitech/science/solar-power-and-bayanihan-can-solve-phl-power-crisis-says-scientist > > > > If the government accepts the suggestion, I will need help from > > those who run Web hosts to mirror the real-time display of the > > electricity load curve. > > > > If anyone among you knows Energy Sec. Petilla personally, I hope > > you can help me convince him to try the idea out. > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > Obet > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
