my vision on evolution of electricity is based on jed vision. the big question is how the utilities, the grid will react.
if the grid moves quickly to a microgrid, a mesh-grid, a smart producer grid, then people will be happy to save some investment on their CHP with a sharing platform. If as I expect the grid will try to save the jobs, the executives, the equities, influenced by workers union, politicians and finance, then people will disconnect from the grid one by one, not to pay the taxes. only when they will be disconnected and the grid buried, will another mesh grid appears, probably as local initiative... first you pull a wire with your neighbour in case your generator breaks, the with all the street. you buy the service of the CHP of a local industry, a bakery, and finally the micro-smart-grid reappear. it is about what happened with micro computers and client-server. mainframe tried to maintain the model with mini, but people prefered PC. then PC showed their limits and people asked for servers, then with Internet and then cloud/grid. it was funny for me to see that J2EE app servers were in a way no better than HTML CICS... and cloud looks like the MVS disk controlers 2015-01-18 9:55 GMT+01:00 Teslaalset <[email protected]>: > My traditional ernergy bill consists of an amount that can roughly be > split as follows: > - 10-20% transport to home > - 60-70% tax > - 10-30% raw energy costs > This with all having profits and overhead included. > LENR reactors will certainly challence such model in the Netherlands. > > Apart from domestic energy usage, there will be a big development on > allowing LENR based mobility (cars, planes, etc.) which will push for > compact standalone operation. > > There will be several stages over time, probably starting with using > traditional grids first and local energy generation later onwards. > > > Op zondag 18 januari 2015 heeft <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > > In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:24:12 -0500: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> > The whole distribution and control system will be >> >scrapped, and that alone will cut your electric bill by half or >> two-thirds. >> >So even if the individual generator costs a bit more per kilowatt of >> >capacity, it will be much cheaper overall. Plus it will replace your home >> >space heater, with co-generation. >> >> But the biggest reason is that people will happily pay a higher cost/watt >> for a >> generator, if it means an end to regular utility bills. Utility bills also >> include the utility's profit margin. >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >>
