To continue debunking an idiot… about smart grids.

One should not be surprised that this fellow is also an avid AGW denier. It would make sense that attacking smart grids would be part of its passion. In many ways this is the same unreasoning obsessive compulsive BS that goes on in AGW only now applied to engineering.

It’s pretty obvious that the auhor isn’t much of an engineer either given that it can not be bothered to discuss actual engineering… But let’s illustrate the stupid some more.

This doesn’t merely suggest that “smart grid” technology will improve energy efficiency; it outright claims that it will “vastly” do so. This is nonsense.

Really, did he ever read any of the studies or define what he was even talking about? Well he claims to explain himself on page 2.

After a page of his notions of supply and demand he simply states:

Myth #5: The “smart grid” will “vastly improve efficiency.”

All this will do, under the best of circumstances, is move the demand to a different time of day. It won’t eliminate or even reduce it. Energy savings result in the generating and transmission systems, but they’re at best marginal.

No further proof, no explanation. Yet a simple explanation of a smart grid shunts power to where it is needed and pays the consumer back for energy he supplies quickly shows through common sense that operating costs are cut down for the utility and the consumer, because it costs more to run one generator it idle and another at peak than too allow them to share the load through a distributed network.

Of course that would require actually thinking.

He concludes with:

Adding a layer of intelligence on top of the current aluminum/copper system is like adding computers to automobile engines — it’s an improvement, but it’s still an internal combustion engine, not something completely new and “vastly” more efficient.

Once again proving how utterly he missed the point he preaches the false and unsubstantiated. The smart grid is independent of the power in the sense that you can plug whatever sort of plant you want into it. But, more importantly, by distributing load with an intelligent algorithm you waste less energy and reduce costs. All the math and numbers are in the links in the previous post. This is math that anyone who would care to even brush up on the subject would look at first.

Well, what do you expect from morons?

It does entertain me that the fool claims to be an engineer - a chemical engineer.

Well we know why places like Bhopal blow up now.