Lots of pie in the sky visionary stuff that might or might not get here in our lifetimes.
This being the reason they only fix it when it breaks down. So they don’t yet have a plan for the future so they don’t do anything to improve the grid because that don’t know how, yet.
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The basic premise I took away from the book is that nobody knows yet how to make a stable grid using wind and solar or really what to do to make a smart grid. Says that most homes with solar power don’t even have a battery bank as they simply feed it into the grid. Book says that integrating big solar and wind power is difficult because those sources are variable and to keep the grid balanced it needs to be constant. This book is recommended by Bill Gates, it says so on the cover, so the perspective is from the viewpoint of a climate change believer and a “smart grid” believer. The other reason is for the raw material, such as copper and special steel to make the Bar I have just finished reading the book you mentioned: The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke I would like to think that in modern times, they could replace them with much smaller transformer. This doesn’t break it down precisely, but maybe helps to understand the concept behind the transformer. So, I would imagine the bigger ones are an extremely giant form of this, but using special material to make them more efficient (if that is possible). The number of windings on each coil determines if the voltage is stepped up, down, or the same. But a small transformer is a coil of wire around either an iron core or other material on one side (primary) and then another coil of wire around the other end of the iron core/material (secondary). We deal with smaller components and DC,not AC.
I am not an Electrical Engineer, but I do have a degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. Although it is fiction, the author is known to be fairly realistic and brings up the concerns we have with the grid. I heard of it before from reading fictional book called One Second After by William R.