PJ~3 Why You Want A Pneumatic Supergrid

"National Security and Alternative Energy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kXsu35PWA
A good point that Woolsey made was that it's most advisable to collect a portfolio of approaches, without pretending to any one, as the panacea. I think I've the described the link that will allow the portfolio, to become, the process.
Cost verses availability was a concern of his. Under my plan, that concern is very valid, for the mechanically incompetent. Woolsey said transportation is oil fueled, and that producing more electricity immediately, does not reduce oil imports. Even if we do push plug in hybrids and remove ever more Appalachian mountaintops, we will accelerate climate change, because coal is the issue there. As you are probably aware, "clean coal" is a fiction.
Woolsey objects to a grid of pipelines for CO2 sequestering from coal powered plants. Would he still object, if that pipeline grid, composed of interdependent energy islands, if it were entirely for kinetic in origin, fully symbiotic renewable energy sources, without the mandatory need for carbon sequestering?
So, a fly in Woolsey's soup is; "There is no viable storage system available for renewable energy sources." Um, bullshit. If you exclude photovoltaic collectors, a pneumatic grid is itself, the renewables storage system, we've been looking for.
We have to fabricate flexibility, with a diversity dependent paradigm, of symbiotic resources.
One of compressed air's greatest potential values is in helping to produce clean water, sustainably. We should adopt a pneumatic supergrid for the purpose of energizing municipal water purification systems alone, if for no other reason! This alone, would free up the regular grid by 1/3rd, even before it became dangerously apparent that water processing will take half of our national energy requirements, very soon. Even if we committed a pneumatic supergrid to water resources alone, that would be more than enough to not have to build one more coal fired or nuclear powered plant, ever again.
With thermal solar, geothermal, hydro, wind, and wave energies, on every scale, contributing to a pneumatic grid, no new power lines need be built. Compressed air pipelines? Yes. But it doesn't take an environment sciences degree to figure out the differences in hazard potential, and in environmental degradation, between a bunch of air, in mostly hidden pipes, and 40K volt power line towers, with their mile wide strips, as far as the eye can see, of dead, dangerous, and unusable land.
As Woolsey said, we have a far greater risk of vulnerability, haunting the controls of our grid as it is,and even worse, as it proposed to be. With the off the shelf electronics that power suppliers use to control a "smart grid" having firewalls that do not stop the hacking abilities of a fifth grade computer gamer today. Do I have to elaborate?
You now ask; "OK,how is a pneumatic grid less vulnerable?" Localized generation. That was on Woolsey's wish list. With homes as pneumatic and electrical energy providers, every property, every neighborhood, every city, state, country and continent, can be buffered from the next, whenever it needs to be. The possibility of blackouts, goes from not slim enough, to almost none. Islands of energy interdependence, are what we have to have, to stabilize the whole.
If you are watching this you are probably aware of the specs, limitations and needs of plug in hybrids, even if you don't yet own one. If your plug in hybrid was triple powered, with compressed air, provided by your home, running a small generator to supplement your batteries, and an even smaller than now, automated liquid fueled engine to stretch both out, you may have to go to your mechanic maybe once a year, to top your fuel, and to make sure that it's all still working. All powered by your house. While you receive a monthly statement, of how much your property has made for you. And for the world.
If you have a single, huge, dangerous, antiquated, pollutant dependent, nationally supplemented, corporate controlled entity, that may be your largest monthly investment, yet only returns a service, that is designed to be working full blast, all of the time, yet it neither does the former or the latter, and is a constant threat, to your personal, your national, your global, and your environmental security, due to its vulnerability, is it cost effective?
If you have many small homeowner scaled investments that are not working all the time, because they are neither wanted or needed to be, that with a little overkill, are a source of income, that eliminates many of our, and every nation's instabilities, many of our pollutants, many of our political intrigues, our would be water shortage, and many of our just fears of terrorism, is it cost effective?

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[zthustra]

The only thing that stands between us and the distributed production and storage of energy is the huge amount of money being made by a few capitalists and a monetary system that gives the creators of the money (bankers/capitalists) the first use of the money and control over how it is spent.

Oh, and the docile, ignorant, sheep-like nature of the human populace.

[HouseOfMillennian]

I was flabbergasted when I learned that acid rain, from coal, caused sink holes by reacting with limestone water tables. You make a great point about coal. I can and always will advocate burning water on a water planet: HHO, preferably solar power extraction.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@Curas1 I just now found out that my chosen heavy hitter, may, I say MAY, be about ready to come out of hiding. Hang on, this ride might be about to get way more intense.

[Curas1]

@DonQuixotedeKaw If you could get the ball rolling on that, far from begrudging you the whole world would be greatly indebted to you.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@Curas1 You're getting ready to answer your own question. :D

Staged tanking, is one inside another, inside another, going down in scale, and up in pressure. I won't say more about that right now, because that is one of the many simple inventions I've worked out (anybody could). If I can get even one of the three dozen gadgets patented, I might make a living. You wouldn't grudge me that for trying to get the ball rolling, would you?

[Curas1]

@DonQuixotedeKaw How will pressure regulation, containment and repair be handled ?

You know I just realized what this reminds me of that I always wondered about, the pressurization of large scale spaceships in science fiction movies

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

Any idiot could have done this, I just happened to be THE idiot, who did.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@Curas1 Been looking for 2 years, myself; nothing.

It is retro, no apologies required. But for a reason; an EMP can't knock out basic machinery. This will bring manufacturing, construction and maintenance jobs everywhere. Tanks? Already figured out, look up large caissons and underground storage. The tubes themselves are the ticket, some energy is used re-compressing at a higher pressure, locally, in staged tanking. I've invented little more than connecting the bits.

[Curas1]

@Curas1 I was thinking to myself, maybe I'm dismissing the Pneumatic aspect of power generation (fighting hard against visions of steampunk and retro technology) and looked for relevant google searches.

I found your videos as the first and only hit.

sigh, sorry

I was going to say maybe you could large tank of compressed air shipped around under Pneumatic tubes like old mail carrying systems in past buildings ..but one jam up and you would be having Halifax explosions so not good

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@SpiritKeeper LOL!