February 19th, 2010
How Hydrogen Convergence will obsolete Nuclear Power
There has been a lot buzz surrounding President Barack Obama’s decision to fund new nuclear power plants. Many in the environmental community have become very disheartened at this news. We at the ebTDesign Forum would advise our readers and twitter followers that these new nuclear plants will never be completed because of massively-distributed power generation.
Just before the start of the dotcom era there was a movement to large supercomputers. However with the introduction of massively-parallel grid computing enabled by the Internet, the supercomputer became obsolete overnight. Similarly, a hydrogen convergence “feedback loop” will enable the deployment of massively-distributed power generation. This will obsolete the nuclear power industry, overnight.
The decision to fund nuclear power is a classic example of why supply-side economics doesn’t work any more. From a P2P Economy viewpoint this doesn’t make any sense. Working and middle class Americans are not going to want to raise their children next nuclear waste dumps. The flexibility of massively-distributed power generation and the incremental cost advantage will make investments in nuclear power for other than military purposes nonsensical.
Post-Globalization, we live in an era of more direct democracy. Once working and middle class Americans are presented with a P2P Economy sensitive solution based on hydrogen convergence, there will be numerous ballet initiatives that will outlaw the storage of new nuclear waste and the building of nuclear power plants. Overnight, the nuclear power era will finally come to an end.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: feedback loop, hydrogen, MDPG, Obama, post-GlobalizationFebruary 17th, 2010
Why Hydrogen Convergence Feedback Loop is Needed
Recently, I heard an online discussion on the merits of inverters versus micro-inverters. Inverters are used to convert the DC produced by Solar Arrays to AC that can be used by common home appliances and office machines. This discussion reminded me of the debates we had during the UNIX wars when distributed computing professionals talked about “no dinosaur zones.”
The moderator asked, “Which is the best way to perform energy optimization?” The answer from the big inverter company sounded eerily similar to the ones given by the mainframe advocates and the response from the micro-inverter representative would have sounded remarkably familiar to those of us who delighted in dinosaur hunting. In the end, the discussion devolved into talk about total cost of ownership, labor costs, and eventually into cost of copper.
As a part of commercializing the Internet, corporate computer shops ended this kind of debate by changing the conversation. The industry collectively set a goal of establishing a “digital dial tone.” At the ebTDesign Forum, we would suggest that all the cleantech tribes could be brought together by creating a hydrogen convergence “feedback loop” because the above skirmish was fought solely by members of the solar tribe. There are similar battles raging among and between the other cleantech tribes.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles produce a lot more electricity than is required for most homes. Most hydrogen cars produce a minimum 85kW and most homes use about 6kW. This means that a hydrogen convergence feedback loop is needed to regulate electricity flow and extend the operating time of the fuel cells. This concept could scale-up to include energy optimization for commercial real estate properties by enhancing proposed smart meters and establishing a path to hydrogen production and hydrogen feedstock composition.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: energy optimization, feedback loop, hydrogen, hydrogen cars