¶ World Power Grid (1)
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World Power Grid:
"The problem is always the electrical power. It’s always the necessity of processing the food and getting the food to the people. It’s fine to grow it in this area, but if you can’t store it, you can’t feed the people who are living in the other area.
"So, using all the information we’ve gotten about power and generating stations, and realizing that really the most efficient thing would be to overlap day and night and seasonal changes, we developed a way of . . . in a sense, cycling all the information toward one central scenario . . . which was to set up a major power grid over the face of the Earth. . .
“The first thing we find out is that if we do this, if we incorporate all the total potential, we gain about 15 trillion kilowatt hours, which is about a fifteenth of the total required. We begin to see that all over the globe we’re able by 1980 to bring everybody to the bare minimum, which is about 2000 kilowatt hours per capita. . . Based on this information we draw one continous network which is essentially a closed system with existing transmission technology.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul’69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 53-56.
