{"id":6834,"date":"2015-03-26T05:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:39:21","slug":"rethink-the-grid-personal-power-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6834","title":{"rendered":"Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energypolicyforum.com\/2015\/03\/15\/rethink-the-grid-personal-power-stations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Rethinking the grid is quickly emerging as one of the hottest topics. The concept of our own personal power stations can be seductive\u2026and just might save us a whole lot of money too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet big or get out!\u201d Those were the famous, and controversial, words of Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture in the seventies. Considering the combination of renewable technology and battery storage, a new popular mantra may emerge: get small and be free.<\/p>\n<p>Much ado about all things renewable together with the objections that technologies can never fully replace fossil fuel generation is popular among a certain set. Here in Texas, among arch conservatives, Solyndra lives on\u2026and on\u2026and on. But the truth is that Solyndra is ancient history. New technologies are ramping up and have been highly successful and may change the way we use the grid forever. Perhaps most interesting of all, however, is the way in which new ways to think about the grid and electricity are prompting entrepreneurs worldwide to rethink, remake and reuse. For instance, what if we all had the ability to transform our homes into micro personal power stations?<\/p>\n<p>The grid is an interesting beast. It typically operates using several different power options together with some back up reserve. Oddly, it runs with virtually zero storage capacity because large amounts of electricity are difficult to store. So nobody really addressed that problem. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations Rethinking the grid is quickly emerging as one of the hottest topics. The concept of our own personal power stations can be seductive\u2026and just might save us a whole lot of money too. \u201cGet big or get out!\u201d Those were the famous, and controversial, words of Earl Butz, Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4435,263,269,1574,674],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-battery-storage","tag-energy","tag-energy-storage","tag-power-grid","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}