Saturday, April 11, 2009

Reinventing the power grid.

A very tenuous and fragile status quo exists in most countries with their national owned power stations.
With their almost total reliance on fossil fuels they are some day going to run out of matter to burn to produce electricity for you!
And what then?
Well, nuclear power is still too dangerous and will only be acceptable when the scientists achieve safe cold fusion as opposed to the nuclear fission of today, hopefully this will someday become a safe reality and research is going on all the time but it is not perfected yet ..
So what do we do in the meantime?
Make our own power.
Even today these fossil fuel burning, pollution belching power stations work with a tremendous loss of power.
For example, Your average power station has to produce up to 765,000 volts to send electricity down the power lines but a portion of this power is lost through Resistance in the grid meaning they are not as efficient as you may have thought thats why the voltage has to be so high..
So what is the answer?
Produce your own electricity either on your own or as a community project you don't have to produce as much power as the big power stations because the electricity only has to travel locally.

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