Steve Connors spoke about transforming the Energy Landscape from centralized to decentralized production, supply, and consumption. Conners questions high technology energy solutions with a simple question: “ Is it Physics or is it Photoshop?”. He used examples such as the Wind Dam proposed for Russia or the FutureGen Clean Coal power plant proposed for the US. Solutions he proposed are aggressive improvements in end-use efficiency, diversifying our domestic energy sources, and modernizing our transmission system.
In particular, I found his rationality for energy efficiency very interesting: “A lot of the things we are doing to de-carbonize are less efficient than current solutions. Oil essentially comes out of the ground the way we use it. No other energy solution is that efficient. We need to increase our efficiency in other sectors to offset the decreased efficiency in de-carbonization”
- Jayson
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