¶ World Power Grid (2)
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World Power Grid:
"Due to the fluctuations in local systems where peak demands occur at different times, you can use the same amount of generating capacity more efficiently, with no increase in terms of more plants.
"Another efficiency factor comes when we begin to cross the continent and we see that we begin to change seasons, so there are different amounts being used-- seasonal changes like day and night.
"This network allows you to bring in the income energy sources. One of the problems with wind power or solar power is that they are not dependable. For instance, if this city depended on solar power-- for the last two weeks it’s been cloudy-- and we would have been in a lot of trouble. If you can tie into a network though, then it can feed in at times when the Sun is shining, but you don’t worry about it, because you have other sources that you can get through your network.
“All these lines represent an enormous quantity of metal tied up in shipping, which could be scrapped and cycled into the power network. . . The synergetic effects of new technologies”
