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.