Essays by Eric Worrall
Is green replacing fantasies of dormant energies with fantasies of non-existent energies?
For a clean energy future, our relationship with the grid must change. This is the way
July 15, 2022
- The current outdated domestic electricity grid cannot integrate the necessary renewable energy sources.
- As we transition to a carbon-free society, we need to transform the way we provide energy and manage the grid.
- Future grids that leverage the potential of distributed energy sources could help flatten the demand curve.
Our current domestic grids are unfortunately unable to integrate the renewable energy sources needed – hampered by outdated, outdated technology and regulatory structures that impede our ability to upgrade infrastructure critical infrastructure needed. In the US alone, the grid operates at about 40% efficiency.
The answer to this problem lies in a new approach to electricity: one that focuses on optimizing how customers and their technology interact with the grid. The devastating effects of climate change require us to take next steps without further pollution and unsustainable demand for extracted resources.
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A possible path ahead
Software activation and other technologies have only recently emerged, so much work remains to be done to realize the potential of the future network that leverages the potential of DER. Utility planning capabilities, regulatory structures, and business models are all in their early stages. An important requirement would be some sort of central registry that classifies assets by type and important characteristics, (e.g. what, where, when, capacity and energy can be provided). Each aggregate contract binds it to specific assets, with that relationship recorded in the register. A permission-based approach, supported by a suitable grid architecture, will govern both communication flow and behavior hierarchy (e.g. if the pin is contracted to support the grid, then it must be available – recently it cannot sell its energy for another purpose).
Our relationship with the grid – and the way we provide energy and manage it – must change. In the past, generating electricity was often an attempt to harm the environment – whether it was mining and burning coal or harnessing nuclear fission power while creating radioactive waste. Powering our future also means developing energy that is sustainable, non-polluting, can withstand increased demand and is more readily available than solar and wind. Hydrogen-boron fusion energy is being developed at TAE Technologies to meet and exceed current needs without burning coal or generating nuclear waste, with a projected time horizon of 2030. Technology This will be carbon-free and provide a huge, new source of energy.
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Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/clean-energy-future-relationship-to-grid-must-change
The timetable for hydrogen boron fusion in 2030 seems unreasonably optimistic.
In theory, boron hydrogen fusion would be much cleaner than deuterium tritium fusion, because it’s one of the relatively clean ones.”a-neutron fusion reaction” react. But hydrogen boron fusion is only 10 times harder than deuterium tritium fusion, in my opinion hydrogen boron fusion fits very well into fantasy land, with anything like that. at the current level of technology.
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