I was having a discussion some time ago with a friend of mine about our country's aging electrical grid. You see this is over 100 yr old technology that is used for the majority of our grid. But the thing is I know of virtually nothing we have developed to replace it. So we have rather lossy transformers etc saturating our grid.
But the thing is the only technology that I am aware of is superconductors which could eliminate most of the losses we experience today. The problem with them is they are very, very expensive to implement. So, in effect it comes down to when we either have some 'fat cats' promoting such technology or we have enough of the American populace who want such change to take place.
I am only aware of one place using superconductors right now. I believe they have some in place near Washington, DC if my memory serves me correctly. See, it is very expensive to implement because we know of no element which is superconductive at room temperature. To even find a superconductor it has to be frozen to like absolute zero, and such conductors have to be covered in such a fashion to allow this-- which means even more cost.
So as I have stated here before it is either going take some forward thinking person to make a development to make superconductors available to all of us, or a 'fat cat', or everyone agreeing to bare the brunt of this cost.
"Everyone" meaning the government. Good luck with that considering that a substantial percentage of the population that came of age during the Reagan years have been taught to hate our government.
ReplyDeleteYes, I just do not get these Reaganites. Do they know that they are following the only atheist we've ever had as an advisor to the president-- Ayn Rand who was an avowed atheist (Reagan's right hand woman, and also a friend of Greenspan-- she was actually there for his swearing in.). Primarily because the Bulshevicks took her dad's pharmacy away from him in their revolution is why she hated the government.
ReplyDeleteGreenspan wasn't just her friend, he was one of her students. Milton Friedman too. Which explains a lot. If you want to learn about the harm Friedman's theories, spread by the economics dept. of the Univ. of Chicago, have done to the U.S. as well as the rest of the world, "Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein is a must read. She accurately predicted in the book what's presently happening in Europe now; especially Greece.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am all too aware of these facts as well. But fact remains, Reagan made everyone feel rich so now the have to be anti government. I mean are folks not aware that most of our technology has been discovered by Argonne as well as other national labs in our country? Not to mention the part NASA has taken place by helping inventors patent their designs? Not to mention all this anarchist mentality has cost us trillions, but forget the news media telling us that. I have said all along that this crash of 08 was all because of things which Reagan implemented. Well I now have the proof of such.
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