Re: [Pen-l] smart grid question

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Superconducting power transmision is another technology that always  
remains just a few years away.  Great idea but it hasn't yet been made  
to work.

"Desert is barren land" is a discussion I'll stay out of but which  
will surely attract attention.  Solar thermal electricity has  
environmental challenges over water supplies.  Let's hope it is  
economical because Californians are already required to pay for a lot  
of it in the future.

Why does technology appear as the solution to every problem?

Gene


On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:

> 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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