Light(2), Electricity and Power Grid
Light (2), Electricity and Power Grid
It was light that brought about electricity and power (supply) grid (the artificial webs of black cables strung up from pole to pole, building to building, and dangling cords of death everywhere in our home) that makes ugly sight and kills a large number of people.
Electricity was known at least in 600 B.C. when Thales of Miletus wrote about amber becoming charged by rubbing (we now call the charge - static electricity). It was not until 1800CE that Humphry Davy connected 2 wires from his battery to a piece of carbon (burnt cotton filament) that electric light came to be possible. Joseph Swan invented electric light (in glass) bulbs first installed in England powered by a private hydroelectric generation plant.
It took Thomas Alva Edison to (re)invent vacuum elctric light bulbs and power supply grids to light up homes in USA (1879) and now over the world.
Because investment for power grids is quite high, and connections made for a few hours of lighting did not make economic sense. Power grid owners must find ways to recoop their investment quicker. So, inventions for electrical devices mushroomed to fill every home -- to use every second of electricity connections, and to pay for usage...
So, it is 'light' that drove Man to total dependency on electricity and the "power grids" -- the power that controls alternative electricity generation -- outside the grids. Wind, solar, water, wave, tide, ... can be used to generate electricity. But, they may not fit into the grids. Though, small generation plants may be possible to supply home/cluster/village/town, they are not profitable for the grids owners. So, governments do not support such development (except in Germany).
What happens now that most people are totally dependent on electricity-consuming devices: lighting, radio/TV, computer, (mobile) phone, clock, fan/air cooler, kitchen mixer, blender, shaver, toothbrush, dryer, refrigerator, washing machine,...? Where can we get electricity? Can we get it from somewhere else but not the power grids?
Blaming Edison is not going to save us from depending on grids (and fossil fuel generating plants). Waiting for new technology is not going to help us -- in developing countries, we must develop new power supply technologies ourselves. Make it safer and cleaner and made in Thailand.
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ไฟฟ้า มีแล้ว ไฟดิน ไฟลม ไฟน้ำ ไฟชีวิต เราก็ต้องมีครับ วันนี้ผมมีวิชชาลมที่ทดลองแล้ว เห็นจริงแล้วว่าสามารถเพิ่ม ปสภ. ไฟลมได้มหาศาล แต่ยังไม่อยากบอกโลก ขออุบไว้ก่อน สักหนึ่งปี เพื่อความ "โลภ" ของตนเอง
ถ้าผมบอกออกไปเมื่อไหร่ พลังงานลมจะระเบิดกว่านี้อีก 100 เท่า ฟังอีกครั้ง 100 เท่า (ไม่ได้พิมพ์ผิด) เนื่องเพราะ มันจะสร้างกำไรได้เพิ่มขึ้น 10 เท่า...ประมาณนั้น กำไรแบบนี้ ผมว่ามันวินวิน เพราะยิ่งโลภมากเท่าไร มลภาละยิ่งลดมากเท่านั้น
...คนถางทาง (ไม่ได้โม้)
คนไทยเรารู้จักไฟอีเล็กฯ มาก่อนฝรั้ง หลายร้อยปี แต่วันนี้เป็นทาสความรู้ฝรัง...แปลกจัง
I would like to see things happen for Thailand before I die.
I am stuck deep in a rut on "energy storage". Like dams for flood water; large batteries for excess electricity, pressure vessels for wind energy, winding up or stretching springs by waves, hot water urns for solar radiation, ...
All of these are feasible, not very high-tech, dcalable and convertable, but we need some hands and brains to find 'practical' (optimal) designs and (suitable) application environments.
A major problem to come with clean, safe and meaningful applications that give people employment or purpose of life and not destroying natural resources to make (silly) gadgets to sell/export...
I wish for high-dhamma products to manufacture and to export [like happiness, not sex ;-) ]; any ideas? anyone?
Hot on the heel after my last comment (on high-dhamma products for sale) above is this:
"สำนักงานพุทธพาณิชย์แห่งชาติ"
เปลว สีเงิน 24 April 2555 - 00:00
http://www.thaipost.net/news/240412/55876
Please note my stand is on 'right to life -- including quality of living and happiness for all lives' -- while the stand of สำนักธรรมกาย has not been publicly stated.