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Interesting. If it's sufficiently distributed, it could be quite robust, albeit not necessarily as efficient. Rather like the Internet. :) Cheers. Fil On 21 March 2011 13:32, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: [log in to unmask] http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/