Signing up

[Nick Robinson]

Hi bcks,

Thanks for your invite.

Hope this works

NPRFTE Ecomaginatin Entrant

[Benjamin Smith]

Oh yeah, it works.

Everything we need to do has to work, it has to make sense, it has to actually produce something greater than what it took to put it together, what it takes to run, in some way.  This list, all of our green efforts, every windmill and every electrical connection, by necessity must produce something more, or we are wasting our time.

Some of the things we do don't need to work.  Bad poetry doesn't work, but good poetry doesn't need to work for everyone all the time.  "Energy" and all its forms need to work all the time, and do our work for us.  Electricity itself is the tool of the work.

That's why we picked the hybrid name combining economy plus imagination.  Ideas are fine but they'll die on the vine if they're not firmly connected to reality.  Everything must make sense.  Everything worthwhile has to be real.

bcks

[Nick Robinson]

Benjamin,

Thank you again for your invitation. Glad we're in correspondence finally.

I take your point re: Economagination, Ecomagination naming, everything we need to do has to work  -

Thanks for pushing the boat out. I'm more of an information and industrial data processing expert than a power engineer, but have studied and taught science and technology, control electronics interfacing and have built amateur electronic power amps and early diac circuits as a hobby.

Making 'green' energy as inter-operable as possible by digitising it as chopped charge-packets and storing it in electric vehicle battery-caching, I've worked on 'virtual circuits' in my 'Smart Grid proposal which really works by rapidly-switching between 'real' circuits to chop the charge down a cascade of available pathways known as the 'trickle-down, champagne glass effect'. So the 'real' and the 'virtual' have to support each other and engineers use this to their advantage in circuit design. Without electric vehicles, wind turbines won't work economically - this is another important synergy effect. But you have to de-compartmentalise the engineeering specialisms in order to make the links or jumps of imagination. SCRs and thyristors are now capable of rapidly-switching 100s of A and 5.6KV DC at least thereby creating the 'robotic router' switching building blocks.

 

Nick NPRFTE

 

 

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From: Benjamin Smith <bcks...@gmail.com>
To: economa...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, 16 November, 2010 13:52:53
Subject: Re: Economagination Signing up