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IBM To Research Smart Grid Tech

Geothermal fits the bill; renewable, non-polluting, 24/7. i.e. www.rasertech.com/geot...


On Nov 22 10:42 AM Gene Herring/gTM wrote:

> Replacing coal-fired power plants with cleaner energy sources, mostly
> renewables, simply willl not work even with a super smart grid. Renewable
> sources such as wind and solar are not base load sources for power.
> We are forced to rely on coal, gas and nuclear power for a large
> share of the base load until we can discover another power generation
> source that is available online 24/7. We should not diminish our
> present power sources without pursuing research for clean coal and
> modernized nuclear generatinig plants. In addition to a smart grid
> approach there must a serious upgrade of the entire transmission
> grid to mesh with new sources coming online in the future.