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December 1, 2011
Smart Grid is the ‘energy Internet' of the future
MINI SHAJI THOMAS
Many, many comments here are dangerous to all life. They must do a bit of rethinking. Why are we short of power, energy? Electricity is being overused(12% of total energy used, instead of some 5%). Putting all our eggs in one basket is typical of our penchant for greed. If we adhere to the strict concept of safety we would change our lifestyles so that we do not waste resources. We are wasting ourselves. And allowing the fascists to rule! Mahatma Gandhi epitomised happy living when he said we should use our enormous endowment of people's power. Only Griddy made a pertinent suggestion here when he called for substitution of machine
power by manpower ergonomically and enjoyably used: Use grid tie
inverters to feed the electricity we produce by stationary riding of bicycles and turn the energy meters backward. See the power flow in living energy via the sun located 150 million kms away safely! Production by the masses instead of mass production. This is Gita in use when they return all they take to Mother Earth: freedom! Our agriculture is of course founded on sowing in rice fields and so on. See the dramatic cotton plucking effects at
http://isothermalengines.blogspot.comOne of the most gracefully powerful films dramatising the enjoyment of human power is De Santis: "Bitter Rice" starring Silvana Mangano. Embrace now a normal civilization based on living energy enjoyment.
The internet uses today a vast amount of electricity and it must be our immediate duty to nullify this for the sake of our own survival.It uses globally an amount varying from 170 GW to 307 GW((Reference 2).
The world nuclear electrcity capacity as of 2006 is 376824 MW. By intelligent energy substitution with human power we can supply all the electricity used by the internet.
This is almost the nuclear capacity!
Reference1: Griddy:
The Internet
and Electricity
Recognising the magnitude of power the internet requires people formed
into an internet grid and with suitable schedules to take into account
local times literally pedalled their powers through smart cards
connected to the power plug. This way 350000 megawatts at 100 watts peak
power electricity the internetted individuals delivered via bicycling
to the grid. This isothermal power they produced at 1.2 volts shockless.
They are so elegant that they were produced through non-clonal love and
they returned their wastes to Mother Earth via composting toilets. They
worked in small self sufficient communities but handled their farm
water by wells operated by their power. They were so smart via
internetted control rooms that they were able to do the work of hydros
by delivering power to meet demand surges. They enjoyed their muscle
power buffered by animal power of buffaloes and bulls whose manure they
used for their ever fertile fields. They dare not export food
from:
Griddy
Posted on: Dec 3, 2011 at 15:29 IST
Reference 2: Barath Raghavan and Justin Ma.2011.The Energy and Emergy of the Internet at
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jtma/papers/emergy-hotnets2011.pdfReference 3. The data on electricity capacity and production till 2006 from 1980 is at
http://www.eia.gov/iea/elec.html