Re: [Pen-l] smart grid question

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
Long distance transmission means super conducting power lines.  Our  
contemporary power lines now have  a fixed limit to how much  
electricity they will carry, super conducting lines can carry across  
the nation fives times as much power and store it when not used.   
Current power lines cannot store energy.  Bowles mentions bio-mass  
energy sources, but bio-mass does not compete with solar power in  
terms of clean.  Solar power can occupy a lot of desert land that is  
barren and then be transported across the country.  Further hydro  
power depends upon dams which are pretty much at their limits of  
generating electricity.  And are environmentally questionable.

Local power creation puts up unnecessary barriers to distribution of  
solar power.
Thanks,
Doyle Saylor
On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Eugene Coyle wrote:

> And why long distance transmission at all?

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