Well, we all know that renewable energy is a fairly good idea, really for everyone. If you care about the environment, you know there isn't an insane amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere or radioactive waste going into some cave no one cares about. If you don't care quite that much, it can save you money. Lots of money. None of that mining and processing required.
I'm going to focus on wind energy in this.
Most of these are placed on vast farms, producing giga-watts of energy pretty much indefinitely. However, these will often power massive sections on the grid, and should something sever the connection between wind farms and what they power, especially during storms, it's lights out for a square mile or more. The advantage is that you get nice windy areas in which to place these, although quite far away in some cases.
So I got the idea, why so far away? Many places have localized wind farms, but why even farms at all? Why not get, say, a 800 kW turbine, and create an entirely separate grid on which it sits. This would then feed into a pool, which would be fed off of a local populous. These very small grids, far smaller than any grids we have on average nowadays. This of course wouldn't be possible everywhere, as some places don't exactly have a lot of wind, but many many places could use this.
look up nikola tesla, he had a revolutionary idea to make electricity free, there would be a large broadcaster in the middle of towns, that shot the electricity to houses, that would have an absorber attached to the house, but edison and the guys with money put a stop to it, because they wanted the ability to charge money for the electricity. that and nikola was "removed" pretty randomly shortly after designing the "iece ray". meant to mock "eace". it shot a beam of electrons or nuetrons or something, it could take down aircraft undetectably, without a trace, just fry the engine, and the accuracy was incredible. too bad. btw tesla figured out how to store and use electricity first.
Chew on this thought and tell me if you like it? What if these wind turbines were mounted on top of the already existing power towers and equipped with airplane flashers/blinkers?
solar power a far better idea than wind. because there are far more places that you could have solar panels or even solar farms in the world.The sun is also far more reliable than the wind.
Far more expensive, takes up way too much room, and isn't nearly efficient enough. Solar is only good for small scale things, not large scale.
If everyone had one on their roof then it would be... well just unbelievable the effect on the power grid. Power companies dont want renewable energy, because it puts them out of the job...
Solar energy isn't at good efficiency yet. It only gets power from about 15% of the energy it receives, do to limitations in silicon absorption.
Maybe a combo of the two? It would be about $80,000 per house (solar $60,000, wind 20,000 or so), but would provide good energy and reliable.
Anyhow, as I said, solar isn't efficient enough. Once they can shrink the amount of land it takes up and ramp up efficiency, it will work. Until then, :/.
