As someone who lectured at Singularity University, I could be dismissed as being biased. Bob Metcalfe is a must view video if you are interested in the future of energy and the energy-Internet connection.... Great content! Great performance!!
Good to be reminded of Bob's talk at Singularity University on the #EnerNet as #futureinvest is the current live session from #WEF15 cc World Economic Forum
One problem left unresolved that I noticed was (paraphrased) "the grid should store energy as the internet stores info. Many levels of storage from small to large". But there is no "efficiency loss" (data loss) with multiple data storage. But there IS a loss each and every time energy is stored and then re-generated. The ultimate solution is to develop the cheapest, yet most abundant source. Is that high cost eff batteries with HALF the RE field or "cheap" storage with TWICE the RE field?
A mighty mission to Enernetionlize the Internet - the innovative Computing&Communicative tool by direct interpretation. Enernet would revolutionise that tool into energy movement for the ultimate human living betterment. Don't just rush to Mars yet, solve the Earth energy problem and make it a better Earth - Slogan!
Consider the ENERGY DEBATE But 'you all' just pass it by Lessor ambitions, 'you' rate And the biosphere WILL fry Put a carbon tax on coal, and an even larger export tax on it, then the 24/ 7 reliable power from molten salt reactors (or similar) would become mass produced. This should be number 1 priority, even more so than pretty pictures on facebook, watching TV and paarrrttyyying!
Building the ENERNET (derived of E[NERgy]Net) could be inspired and learn from the history of building the Internet. cu -- fridemar 2012-03-27 04:08:42 CET
You hear wrong... If it "costed more energy, that is, if the EROEI for solar panels was less than 1, they wouldn't be made. Actually, it's about 10, that is, it takes about 3 years of normal use to recoup the energy required to make them, lasting about 30 years. Lead acid... so what. Machines will make all this stuff WAY cheaper, someday. But most people don't care about excess CO2, ocean acidification ALREADY happening. Build MOLTEN FUELS reactors... quickest way, except "nobody" wants that...
"Distributed " students who don't really have to be graduates, if Bill Gates is any guide, is the way to continue. A bit more understanding of the circumstances of black holes and superconductors connected by the holographic principle of quantum chemistry. Most of the changes have be made by students who don't know what is "impossible", and can recover when they find out how much of what they "know" is confused, (and not always wrong).
Surely, it could be "easy" with today's tech to make machines that spit out thousands of square miles of (the best kind of) solar panel material, and batteries... How to deal with full blown automation and jobs losses (install jobs aside) is the REAL challenge! Is this even possible within today's monetary system?
As someone who lectured at Singularity University, I could be dismissed as being biased.
Bob Metcalfe is a must view video if you are interested in the future of energy and the energy-Internet connection....
Great content! Great performance!!
I have seen quite a few of the Singularity University videos and so far this is the best one by a good margin.
Good to be reminded of Bob's talk at Singularity University on the #EnerNet as #futureinvest is the current live session from #WEF15 cc World Economic Forum
Most profound lecture I have seen in a long long time
One problem left unresolved that I noticed was (paraphrased) "the grid should store energy as the internet stores info. Many levels of storage from small to large". But there is no "efficiency loss" (data loss) with multiple data storage. But there IS a loss each and every time energy is stored and then re-generated.
The ultimate solution is to develop the cheapest, yet most abundant source. Is that high cost eff batteries with HALF the RE field or "cheap" storage with TWICE the RE field?
Hey, does someone know where I can download the slides? Thanks!
A mighty mission to Enernetionlize the Internet - the innovative Computing&Communicative tool by direct interpretation. Enernet would revolutionise that tool into energy movement for the ultimate human living betterment. Don't just rush to Mars yet, solve the Earth energy problem and make it a better Earth - Slogan!
lots of questions not many answers great speech amount energy etc thanks for sharing
GREAT...you 4 commentor said it al
Consider the ENERGY DEBATE
But 'you all' just pass it by
Lessor ambitions, 'you' rate
And the biosphere WILL fry
Put a carbon tax on coal, and an even larger export tax on it, then the 24/ 7 reliable power from molten salt reactors (or similar) would become mass produced. This should be number 1 priority, even more so than pretty pictures on facebook, watching TV and paarrrttyyying!
Building the ENERNET (derived of E[NERgy]Net) could be inspired and learn from the history of building the Internet. cu -- fridemar 2012-03-27 04:08:42 CET
With that attitude, no one would want to look up LFTR or IFR or PRISM or MSR or FHR or etc.
(but they should, anyways)!
You hear wrong... If it "costed more energy, that is, if the EROEI for solar panels was less than 1, they wouldn't be made. Actually, it's about 10, that is, it takes about 3 years of normal use to recoup the energy required to make them, lasting about 30 years.
Lead acid... so what.
Machines will make all this stuff WAY cheaper, someday.
But most people don't care about excess CO2, ocean acidification ALREADY happening.
Build MOLTEN FUELS reactors... quickest way, except "nobody" wants that...
Nuclear Reactor in a garage ? I wonder what the neighbours would think of that ?
"Distributed " students who don't really have to be graduates, if Bill Gates is any guide, is the way to continue. A bit more understanding of the circumstances of black holes and superconductors connected by the holographic principle of quantum chemistry.
Most of the changes have be made by students who don't know what is "impossible", and can recover when they find out how much of what they "know" is confused, (and not always wrong).
Hi i'm from 2024
me too lol
Surely, it could be "easy" with today's tech to make machines that spit out thousands of square miles of (the best kind of) solar panel material, and batteries...
How to deal with full blown automation and jobs losses (install jobs aside) is the REAL challenge! Is this even possible within today's monetary system?
Nikola Tesla claimed to have a way to do this.