@stephenbrickwood1602

7 months ago

3 things. Generation Grid transmission Dispersed customers The grid is incredibly expensive and a little expensive electric energy plus the rest as cheap fossil energy we are ok. The grid transmits to millions and millions of dispersed customers from the central generator No fossil fueled future means 5 times bigger national grid to deliver 5 times more electricity. The national grid is incredibly expensive. The first national grid has been built over 100years and costs as much as the national GDP. Now central electricity generation needs a 5 times bigger grid capacity to disperse to the customers. A little electricity energy over the expensive national grid, a fragile lightweight grid that was limited in capacity because of its $/klm construction costs, became expensive energy. But because it is fragile it can be broken like when the AC is turned up in the middle of the day. Forest fires started when the transmission lines heat and sag too low and close to the ground vegetation. Transmission lines blown over in stormy weather. Now 5 times bigger grid, a robust grid, is economically horrendous financially. Also horrendous in CO2 from the resources to finished giant grid, and raw materials. All centralised electricity generation has this major problem and nobody is talking about it. EV talk all day long. Nuclear electricity talk all day long. Distant renewables talk all day long. Time frames, we don't have 100years.

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