10/20/2021
The electric grid as we know it, CANNOT handle the expansion to EV's. There isn't enough money to throw at it - low ball estimate is that it will cost us $125B to upgrade the grid to handle EV's...but the grid isn't designed to do what EV's will ask it to do. Vulnerabilities are still in place, and the elimination of coal-fired power and nuclear doesn't leave enough generation capacity. The government can throw all the money it wants at it, and the utilities can say "hey, we'll figure it out"...but they can't...and won't. This is a stone-cold fact...anybody who says the grid can handle it is lying to you. The cost is staggering and the issues facing it (listed above) will still be in place.
The grid as it stands should be left alone to do the things it's doing. We're not going to solve this issue by trying to upgrade a system that was put in place in 1890. Facts are friendly...and this one has a big smile on its face and a hand extended in greeting.
Moving forward, the development of specific InfraTech to handle the needs of these 21st Century technologies is the way we should be focused. Allowing specific infrastructure systems to be created, using CleanTech solutions dedicated to communication, connectivity, and mobility is the more pragmatic, cheaper, and smarter way to go. These new systems will be less vulnerable to hacking and power outages, and dedicated to insure 99.999% uptime with specific use-cases only that insure that there is always ample and enough electricity available to power communications, connectivity, and mobility needs; a dedicated self-powered and integrated system not dependent upon the grid.
We need to start looking at smarter approaches to bring .
Aradatum
COPENHAGEN, N.Y. — On a good day, a fair wind blows off Lake Ontario, the long-distance transmission lines of New York state are not clogged up and yet another heat wave hasn’t pushed the urban utilities to their limits. On such a day, power from the two big wind turbines in Vaughn Moser’s hay...