http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/is-a-smart-grid-stupid/ Business and Technology for the Global Generation Industry Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:25:06 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/is-a-smart-grid-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Jim. McKirdy Thu, 21 May 2009 02:42:13 +0000 http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/is-a-smart-grid-stupid/#comment-184 Our power plants are targets. Take out our power plants and we stop fast. No banks, no gas, no food, no water we are totally dependent upon electric power. This is the main reason why we need to get off the grid. It is dumb to think of the grid as anything but dumb. This is not energy independence at all. We are still dependent upon the grid. The grid fails all the time. We even have terms for this "Power Outages". This is the twenty first century. Why are we dependent on 19th century technology.I think the term "Smart Grid" is just another buzz work for a avenue to waste money. Look at it this way. Why spend money on something that is not reliable. There are better ways to generate electric power. Big wind turbines, large solar farms are still feeding the grid. It just makes no sense! Who cares about cyberspying. What we should care about is spending money on something that does not work. Only if Thomas Edison got his way, we would not have this discussion. The grid will always be a problem. You can never fix it. It is analog technology in a electronic world. PS: China is 50 cycles, we are 60 cycles. What can they copy? Our power plants are targets. Take out our power plants and we stop fast. No banks, no gas, no food, no water we are totally dependent upon electric power. This is the main reason why we need to get off the grid. It is dumb to think of the grid as anything but dumb. This is not energy independence at all. We are still dependent upon the grid. The grid fails all the time. We even have terms for this “Power Outages”. This is the twenty first century. Why are we dependent on 19th century technology.I think the term “Smart Grid” is just another buzz work for a avenue to waste money. Look at it this way. Why spend money on something that is not reliable. There are better ways to generate electric power. Big wind turbines, large solar farms are still feeding the grid. It just makes no sense! Who cares about cyberspying. What we should care about is spending money on something that does not work. Only if Thomas Edison got his way, we would not have this discussion. The grid will always be a problem. You can never fix it. It is analog technology in a electronic world. PS: China is 50 cycles, we are 60 cycles. What can they copy?

]]> http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/is-a-smart-grid-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-150 A. M. Cenista Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:02:42 +0000 http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/is-a-smart-grid-stupid/#comment-150 A brilliant comment which covers a lot of ground -- cyberspying, Obama agenda, real vs. imagined grid, definitions of what we want. Isn't there some way that informed viewpoints such as yours are heard in this Administration? Or is having a Nobel Prize or being on the payroll of a private equity firm required? A brilliant comment which covers a lot of ground — cyberspying, Obama agenda, real vs. imagined grid, definitions of what we want. Isn’t there some way that informed viewpoints such as yours are heard in this Administration? Or is having a Nobel Prize or being on the payroll of a private equity firm required?

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