Fight (For) The Power
Friday, August 15th, 2003 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flwydIraqis offer U.S. blackout tips.
I'm an advocate of alternative energy. I don't have some utopian vision where everything runs on renewable energy and there aren't any problems. But if we can get any significant amount of energy from, say, solar and wind power, we should. If buildings had solar panels on their roofs, they could produce some fraction of the energy they consume and even feed it back (and get paid!) when the building isn't in use. Such decentralized power generation could (I think) help soften the blow from centralized failures.
I'm not an electrical engineer, and I don't know if something like this would've helped yesterday's blackout at all, but it seems like a good time to bring it up. The front range and southwest have a lot of sun and wind that's being underutilized. We could bring in some revenue and maybe reduce the impact of coal mining, oil imports, and pollution.
Yay for alternative energy.
(This post may not be very good. I'm a little tired and not very coherent. But I just wanted to show my Boulder stripes.)
I'm an advocate of alternative energy. I don't have some utopian vision where everything runs on renewable energy and there aren't any problems. But if we can get any significant amount of energy from, say, solar and wind power, we should. If buildings had solar panels on their roofs, they could produce some fraction of the energy they consume and even feed it back (and get paid!) when the building isn't in use. Such decentralized power generation could (I think) help soften the blow from centralized failures.
I'm not an electrical engineer, and I don't know if something like this would've helped yesterday's blackout at all, but it seems like a good time to bring it up. The front range and southwest have a lot of sun and wind that's being underutilized. We could bring in some revenue and maybe reduce the impact of coal mining, oil imports, and pollution.
Yay for alternative energy.
(This post may not be very good. I'm a little tired and not very coherent. But I just wanted to show my Boulder stripes.)
