Comments on: 765 kV: Broadband for Electricity

By: Mike Kister

Mike Kister — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:52:30 +0000

SmartMeter (or Guido Evans?) - though I’m mystified why your IP address is in Korea, I see your site is an actual advertisement for a British Gas meter product.

Skycasters likes meters, too. We encourage our customers to check their usage at https://www.skycasters.com/usage .

I agree that we’ll continuously improve how we utilize our environment to extract electricity. That’s why its so critical we be able to channel high volumes of electricity via conduits like the 765 kV lines, already used in various parts of the world. The EU & AU future use of supergrids will underscore this development.

As for electricity for healing … hmmm.

By: Smart Meter

Smart Meter — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:21:02 +0000

Electric Current is a great achievement for humans, but we have to learn to love it to make good use of it. I know what I’m saying, I know that it wont last forever but we’ll always find ways to get cheap electricity from from our lovely Earth. I would love to tell you about the use of electricity for healing purposes but don’t thing you will be interested. Thanx for taking time to write.

By: Mike Kister

Mike Kister — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:23:22 +0000

Thanks for the link, Blaine (the one your name links to I kept live, as Instructables is one of our favorite sites (and the comments on Instructables regarding spam links I somewhat respect…).

The real awesomeness of your Instructables link is that one of the comments refers to the real difficulties of residential solar, but also links to a really cool site out of North Carolina State University, http://www.dsireusa.org, which lists programs in each state that help individuals, communities and companies get their feet wet in alternative energy options.

The Energy Map of America I link to in the blog above shows that each square meter of PV doesn’t produce all that much electricity. It’s really crucial to know how many square meters will effectively complement your grid consumption, and what your ROI is (in years). Is the glacial ROI worth it? [Also, is the feel good factor worth it?]

A really sobering study done by a professor at San Juan College in New Mexico identified that a solar farm containing an area of PV cells 230 miles long and 230 miles wide would be required to power the US. Wow.

By: Blaine Casadei

Blaine Casadei — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:47:29 +0000

I was searching for small solar panel information and found this article. I discovered similar websites, like homesolarpower(dot)multiply(dot)com /journal/item/1/Building _Your_Own_Home _Solar_Panel that help you install your very own solar panels but I need to find out where to get the pv panels.

By: Mike Kister

Mike Kister — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:25:12 +0000

Andrew,

Good point. I’m not sure what the payback on wind turbines is either, regarding their production carbon footprint. But there’s gotta be payback down the road where the sheer number of alternative energy plants mitigates the effects of carbon release.

Mike

By: Andrew A. Sailer

Andrew A. Sailer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:57:14 +0000

Excellent. Now we can pollute the world to an unheard of level. The production of photovoltaics is the single greatest producer per watt of toxic chemicals of any power producing technology. Also, the effective life of panels in real world installations makes them barely able to produce more than the energy needed to manufacture them. Good luck scaling up that technology. The key to energy efficiency is reduction of consumption. Just another case of believing that technology itself can necessarily improve our lives without intelligent application.

By: Osckar Conejo

Osckar Conejo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:47:49 +0000

Dear Mike . Congratulations for this grate Blog !
Broadband for electricity is a grate idea, something the whole planets is been wainting for, since so long, renewable energy is the FUTURE, and the US, is the right country to bring the planet into the right track again !!! Thank you !!!