Design Basis

So here's a brief outline of the design basis ---

1) better integration of the grid into the infrastructure
a) synergy based on integration
b) the infrastructure supplies energy at points
and transfers energy to other points

2) #1 requires - new materials and construction
methods - making the principals of integration
realizable from an engineering / architectural
and construction point of view. ( See previous post on
batteries and wind )

3) better integration of industrial and community
planning - hopefully to the benefit of everybody.
This is NOT COMMUNISM - this is common sense.
Communities can not expect to control industry - but
industry cannot take the communities hostage or
for that matter for granted. This integration of
community and industry must not rely on a single
location - ( ie like Washington, D.C. ) because the
planning goes on at all community levels. Industry
should not ignore local or neighborhood communities
and these groups should not have to SCREAM to be
heard.

4) 1 & 2 & 3 imply a variety and sosphication of "control
mechanism" probably not yet visualized. Some of these
mechanism might be integrated into the materials
suggested by #2.

EIG - Energy initiatives

http://www.eig-llc.com/index2.htm

Boy this almost makes this seems redundant - really -
there mission statement is pretty much the same as
this blog except they have a bigger/(better?) group.

Alot of engineers - but very similiar goals to want
I'm trying to paint on this site.

Check out their interfaces:

http://www.eig-llc.com/interfaces/index.htm

batteries(sodium&sulfur) & wind

I think the following is brilliant and although I don't know alot about these
guys I am extremely impressed - at their willingness to take these kinds
of risks, and make these kinds of investments ----



An article in New York times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/business/11battery.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

Note:

“We’re looking at what we believe the grid of the future is going to be,” said Carl L. English, president of A.E.P. “We’re going to need a significant amount of storage if for no other reason than to take greatest advantage of alternative energy sources like wind power.”

details on batteries from same article :

"At least at this stage, saving money by storing a windmill’s production for peak-price hours will be difficult. The cost is very high, $27 million for six megawatts of capacity, or about $4,500 a kilowatt, including the price of substation improvements. Building a gas turbine of that size to meet peak needs would cost substantially less. But the battery system would be able to store power made from wind, a form of generation that does not produce any carbon dioxide.
The batteries can each deliver one megawatt of power — enough to run a medium-size shopping center — for a little more than seven hours. Replenished nightly, they give back about 80 percent of the electricity put into them. Each is the size of a double-decker bus, and installation is not permanent; they can be moved to another site as the need arises.
The batteries will be built by NGK Insulators Ltd. of Japan. They use a sodium sulfur chemistry and operate at temperatures of more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit."

grid stuff

Hi - my name is Marc Bellario - at least that's what they say -

I want to redesign the electric utility power transmission grid -

Whay do I want to do that ???????????????????????????

Well, mainly because I believe that it's possible to do and
that the results will be beneficial - and because I think
that we tend - we being most people tend to make alot
of assumptions about things that are not always valid.

Thanks I hope you support this