Hi Fil,
<snip> We *could* move towards a highly distributed power system,
where each building provided its own energy. There's movement there
with solar panels and small scale ground-source heat pumps. If we
could figure out how to make good fuel cells, that could help.<end>
One serious plan that seems to be going forward is to use a combination of
the global battery storage in electric cars (and possibly distributed
battery storage in buildings) with remote managed computerised
charge/discharge to provide the global electric storage buffer to increase
the proportion of renewable energy generation.
In small scale electricity design storage, for the next few years Lithium
is the key.
Lithium is primarily easily available in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. In
geo-political design strategic terms, influence in these places is likely to
be a lever point - as various alternative power groups already appear to
have perceived.
Best wishes,
Terry
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