Nov 17 2012: How do I get added to the list of people that get to try this? I am an electronics engineering student and I would love to share this with my class. It would be an amazing way to learn and play with circuits.
Jun 9 2012: We need to change our view on power generation. Power companies are concerned with power density because it saves them money. Fossil fuels and nuclear power are great for that. They consume limited space and produce a lot of power.
Renewable power such as wind or solar are would be far better if they were used in a distributed fashion. You could cover a significant amount of a city if you considered every house or building as part of your generation network.
It would be silly to treat nuclear power as a distributed source by putting nuclear plants in everybodies house and it would be equally silly to treat renewable power as a dense source.
We have the space if we start viewing rooftops as part of the power generation network instead of just consumption.
Bene
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Renewable power such as wind or solar are would be far better if they were used in a distributed fashion. You could cover a significant amount of a city if you considered every house or building as part of your generation network.
It would be silly to treat nuclear power as a distributed source by putting nuclear plants in everybodies house and it would be equally silly to treat renewable power as a dense source.
We have the space if we start viewing rooftops as part of the power generation network instead of just consumption.
Bene
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