smartgrid

India smart grid success story. global potential: €61 billion energy savings, abate 2.03 metric gigatons of emissions. (http://is.gd/6dN1)

GridPoint received $120 million in venture capital. Working on plug-in vehicles in Boulder, CO. (http://is.gd/6gom)

SAP demo of smart meter, cell relay, & call center interaction. (http://is.gd/6gpC)

Rhode Island aiming to beat Massachusetts, Texas, & Delaware for first offshore wind farm. (http://is.gd/6gyZ)

photovoltaics can grow 30% a year for 10, 20 years & become 5% of the world's electricity. what about the other 95%?

it's relevant scale that matters. wind & solar don't matter until they are at relevant cost. only 1 relevant cost: cheaper than coal.

price needs to be cheaper than coal & oil in china & india. nothing else matters, scales, or solves the climate crisis.

listening to Vinod Khosla podcast

"hybrids aren't cost effective. they'll never be a big part of the next billion cars we ship on this planet." vinod khosla

@Seeger hmm.. maybe the same cost? what's the change function (crisis v. pain of adoption) for electric grid actors in U.S., India, & China?

Lanza Tech (http://lanzatech.co.nz) now on my radar.

"A Green New Deal" - Compares smart grid spending to military spending in the 1930s. Fighting carbon = fighting fascism? (http://is.gd/72nc)

"A Smarter Planet" by IBM. (http://is.gd/6IzE)

Cost of the smart grid ($400 billion over 10 years) pales in comparison with annual "line loss" costs to American business of $120 billion.

Lot of focus on the Big 3 automakers right now. What if what we need is a Big 300 automakers figuring our plug-in hybrids?

Instituting a strict U.S. "cap and trade" policy (http://is.gd/78fC) seems increasingly more urgent than ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.

Average age of engineers cheering Apollo 11 from Houston control room was 26. When President Kennedy announced the challenge they were 18.

"The Climate for Change" by @algore (http://is.gd/78kV)

Gov't: "rescue" GM by letting it bankrupt. Spend $50 billion on smart grid instead of bailout to incent new owners to make plug-in hybrids.

retweet: @harshalpatel Obama Policy Reco for Smart Meters: http://tinyurl.com/5p74uc