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Dr. Simon Michaux: “Minerals and Materials Blindness” | The Great Simplification #19
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Jul 31, 2022
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Nuclear energy is clean
Potentially we can't build nuclear fast enough to replace fossil fuels https://youtu.be/O0pt3ioQuNc 22:19
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Jul 10, 2022
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Is the smart grid all hot air?
Yep, or worse the real-time energy pricing causes the highest prices during weather crises introducing ethical issues, such as during the 2021 Texas Winter Storm on customers using real-time energy pricing plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#Power_...Sometimes consumer smart grid gets evangelized as 'the fourth industrial revolution' - Dr. Simon Michaux argues the material blindness of it in such a way that only the rich may experience it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pt3ioQuNc&t=625s ( Dr. Simon Michaux: “Minerals and Materials Blindness” | The Great Simplification #19 with Nate Hagens ).
⬐ ScoundrellerYou could just cap the max price and let the grid make it up during other times. That's basically what time of day billing does anyway: a blended approach to electricity rates that averages out but provides some incentive.Of course, my jurisdiction rolled out time-of-day billing and found that demand shifted only a few percent, so I wonder if the program even covered its costs for smaller users.