Today we barely climbed into the single digits. Also at some point today, the Star Tribune added a story to its online edition: What will best keep Xcel's grid reliable in a pinch: Gas plants or batteries?
With the kinds of cold we get in winter, and heat with humidity in summer. the answer to that question is of significance to quite a few Minnesotans, including our household, for which the monthly energy costs for December increased by $100 between 2020 and last year.
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As a long time fan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Systems Dynamics section and their work on Limits to Growth, I searched the internet using the phrase “MIT US grid modeling.” I was pleasantly surprised to discover a research report online: “The Future of the Electric Grid.” I was even more pleasantly surprised to learn it’s one of a series.
Other Reports in This Series- The Future of Nuclear Power (2003)
- The Future of Geothermal Energy (2006)
- The Future of Coal (2007)
- Update to the Future of Nuclear Power (2009)
- The Future of Natural Gas (2011)
- The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (2011)
Statement on Energy Policy
It’s true we have invented quark-extraction,and this allows our aiming gravity at will;it’s true also that timecan now be made to flowbackward or forward bythe same process. It may be true as well thatwhat is happening at the focal point,the meristem of this process,creates a future kind of space,a tiny universe that hasquite different rules. In this, it seems,whatever one may choose to do or be becomesat once the case. In short,we have discovered heaven andit’s in our grasp. However,the Patent Office has not yet approved and citesless positive aspects of this invention. First, itdoes not generate profit, andit does make obsolete all presentdelivery systems for our nukes. Then,it will let private citizens do things that onlya chosen few, that is, OUR sort, should be allowed—fly freely from one countryto any other, spreading diseasesand bankrupting transportation.Home-heating, auto-making industries will be trashed,employment shelled, depressions spread worldwide,sheer anarchy descend.For these and other reasons,no one must know of this. . . .
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