Now What?
Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection released a media campaign yesterday putting forth a three-step plan to achieve the goal of making our electric grid fossil fuel free within 10 years.
The campaign, in responding to the election of our new president asks the country: “Now what?” And answers with the goals of efficiency, generation and transmission:
Energy Efficiency: A national upgrade to eliminate waste, save money, and improve comfort. Make every bit of energy we produce work harder for us.
Renewable Generation: Accelerate the ramp-up of clean, renewable electricity sources through policies that support increased private and public investment in technologies that work, like wind, solar, and geothermal.
National Unified Smart Grid: Modernize transmission infrastructure so that clean electricity generated anywhere in America can power homes and businesses across the nation; Build national electricity ‘interstates’ that move power quickly and cheaply to where it is needed; Establish local smart grids that buy and sell power from households and support clean plug-in cars.
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sean on
Thu, 18th Dec 2008 1:22 pm
problem: losses in long lines.
result: electricity can not effectively travel more than 500 miles, not likely over 300 miles.
But efficient and well engineered controls could help.
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