A and E

Last night I took one one of my mates to A and E, nothing serious. Since there was a long waiting time, it gave me an opportunity to read quite a bit of hot air. It seems that nuclear power is the future for us if we want to have a 'sustainable' energy consumption for the next 1000 years. There are obviously a lot of problems to overcome first before but it is not totally infeasible. Over the next decades we sill see a rising demand for electricity. This will be due because of a shift to cleaner energy. Electricity is a high grade form of energy which if generated in the right way can be very clean. Therefore a shift to the electrification of certain service such as public transport and heating will be experienced. The book talks about the joys of heat pumps compared to conventional gas fired boilers. They are much more efficient at producing energy (in the form of heat) then gas or combined heat and power (CHP) and thus should be used in the future to provide living spaces with heating (and in the summer with air conditioning) Therefore I will be researching ways in which these micro generators can be incorporated into microgrids.