Thread by @Monetarius

The electrical grid needs to be rethought as a communications network. Packetized Energy Management (PEM) will allow the economic coordination of distributed energy production. We CAN abandon top-down centralized energy systems. spectrum.ieee.org/packetized-pow…

The electrical grid needs to be rethought as a communications network. Packetized Energy Management (PEM) will allow the economic coordination of distributed energy production.

We CAN abandon top-down centralized energy systems. Instead of going nuclear with high cost small nuclear reactors, the Saskatchewan government should free the market for electricity production that would allow even households to participate.

Japan has installed 300,000 fuel cell furnaces in homes that produce both heat and electricity in their Ener-Farm program. They are powered by natural gas but the thermic process in the fuel cells produces 50-60% less CO2 emissions compared.../

/...to burning gas outright to produce steam for turbines in gas-fired electrical plants. They are, of course, hydrogen ready. The Sask government invested more than 2.5 billion dollars in the Boundry Dam 3 carbon capture and sequestration experiment.

It proved that coal can be cleaned of carbon, at least some of the time, but it can't be done economically and the technology will never be applied to legacy coal burning electrical plants that currently satisfies 41% of total electrical demand in the province.

The CCS technology would be better applied to scrubbing the natural gas supply that runs through 23,000 km of gas lines in Saskatchewan. Grading starts with "grey" hydrogen which is still technically dirty, but with a lesser COP2 content than natural gas,.../

/...but it can, and will, move to cleaner "blue" hydrogen and ultimately to "green" pure H2. Domestic fuel cells combined with rooftop solar and battery storage in the home would very quickly get us to a state where people become baseload.

Power to the people is power from the people. #skpoli