Showing posts with label fact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fact. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 October 2010
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.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
an interesting fact
One for the people against wind turbines because of bird deaths -
Annual average number of birds killed by wind turbines in denmark = 30,000
Annual average number of birds killed by cats in Britain = 55,000,000
Anyway I digress:
Today I read two papers on the AuRA-NMS which is currently being developed by a number of different Universities and companies. They have come up with a framework that can control a number of things using agents such as power flow and voltage levels, and integration of generators. I have also read a large amount of the book I mentioned previously, it is very interesting. From what I gather so far, the most feasible microgenerators that could be installed on every home and actually produce enough electricity to be worthwhile is photovoltaic panels. Also thermal panels which heat water are another viable way to decrease demands for electricity due to heating. Ways in which these technologies could be integrated and controlled by agents in a distributed system is of some interest to me.
Annual average number of birds killed by wind turbines in denmark = 30,000
Annual average number of birds killed by cats in Britain = 55,000,000
Anyway I digress:
Today I read two papers on the AuRA-NMS which is currently being developed by a number of different Universities and companies. They have come up with a framework that can control a number of things using agents such as power flow and voltage levels, and integration of generators. I have also read a large amount of the book I mentioned previously, it is very interesting. From what I gather so far, the most feasible microgenerators that could be installed on every home and actually produce enough electricity to be worthwhile is photovoltaic panels. Also thermal panels which heat water are another viable way to decrease demands for electricity due to heating. Ways in which these technologies could be integrated and controlled by agents in a distributed system is of some interest to me.
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