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I've been a proponent of self power for years. Now, with the "smart grid" looming in our future, I'm more a proponent than ever. Screw President BOHICA being able to turn my thermostat up or down. Not until he turns Algore's down first!
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`Smart grid' — buzz of the electric power industry
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WASHINGTON — Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet.
More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation’s electricity distribution system, an aging spider web of power lines, is poised to move into the digital age.
The “smart grid” has become the buzz of the electric power industry, at the White House and among members of Congress. President Barack Obama says it’s essential to boost development wind and solar power, get people to use less energy and tackle climate change.
What smart grid visionaries see coming are home thermostats and individual appliances that adjust automatically based on the cost of power, and water heaters that can draw power from a neighbor’s rooftop solar panel. They see a time when, on a scorching hot day, a plug-in hybrid electric car charges one minute and a few moments later sends electricity back into the grid to help avert a brownout.
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I guess I'm an odd kinda person, I want what I want, and I'm willing to pay for it. So, I'll be using as much electricity as I want. Not to mention the fact that I've NEVER been able to see how my cutting back on anything here, will improve life in Sri Lanka or Germany or Tibet.
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Coool Schteveo
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"This is the energy Internet,” said Bob [Denver?] Gilligan, vice president for transmission at GE Energy"
Nope, Bill, THAT Bob Denver is deceased.
But, I've got a friend who's an engineer, he just left GE. And he says hundreds of GE engineers are bolting. Part of the reason, GE is pushing this thing, but it doesn't really exist yet. They re going to invent it as they go along.
That's the same kinds of "future think" Nortel Networks used back in the late 1990's. And we all know what happened to Nortel.
I think in Germany the word they use is, "kaput".
Welcome to BarterTown.
Just leave your weapons at the door.
And hope MasterBlaster doesn't embargo the PigShit.
Too bad because his friend, the Professor, could make a clean nuke plant out of a couple of coconuts, a car out of bamboo, and a radio out of leaves and coconuts.
And El Yobama's only been around for what, 105 days? Can you see us in 2 or 3 years? FUBAR!
goin ta da range tawmorra.
play a tune own da toy.
Tank I goin gits me a new toy Kahr called a CW45.
O, and some ol lady w/a cell phone pulled out in frunt ub me about a munth ago and my brite shiny Intercepter gots totaled.
Wus lookin at a Kaw ZX14 today. Cerrius fast.
"Too bad because his friend, the Professor, could make a clean nuke plant out of a couple of coconuts, a car out of bamboo, and a radio out of leaves and coconuts."
And yet he couldn't figure out how to fix a hole in a boat.
Trivia time!
I think we may have answered this here before, but:
Gilligan's first name was...?
Heck, while we're at it, what were everybody's names? Let's think about something fun and non-Obama for a few minutes.
Just sit right and you'll hear a tale...
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