Planned power outages
California's 'planned public safety power outages' is one new concept that will require major re-thinking of our infrastructure - and this is a VERY GOOD THING. It's about time we get away from a 150 year-old concept of centralized power grids. I hope to see the deconstruction of those massive transmission lines and those ugly neighborhood overhead electrical lines. We have two solutions at hand (and many more to come): whole-house battery powerpacks, and microgrids. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last year these frequent 'public safety' power outages bewildered California residents. The number of complaints and whining about them was excessively unfounded. In response, many homeowners are installing generators. This action alone is indicative of our continued laziness, ignorance and/or denial of global warming, and more importantly a failure of the renewable energy industry to seize upon...