Infrastructure needs like pipelines and electrical transmission lines will become more evident as production increases.
FORBES: The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Material Boys
Although this was a widespread outage, neither the cause nor the recovery time should be used to compare it with a deliberate, well coordinated terrorist attack on the electrical transmission system.
FORBES: Resiliency Portfolio Standards: Turning Smart Grids into Strong Grids
Electrical transmission lines and the devices they sustain are ubiquitous, meaning that a storm comparable in intensity to the 1859 event could potentially be one of the greatest catastrophes in recorded history.
FORBES: Intelligence Community Warns Solar Storms Could Collapse Electric Grid
But given their proximity to each other, the two projects were able to cut costs by sharing electrical and transmission infrastructure.
FORBES: California's New Solar-Wind Hybrid Power Plant Greens The Grid
The third technology is the combination of the first two: that is, the rapid storage and rapid transmission of electrical energy.
There, the Colorado Springs Utility is preparing electrical engineers with an expertise in transmission and distribution.
The company produces electrical steels for makers of power transmission and distribution equipment.
The crank-handle drives a dynamo through a clever transmission system, and the resulting electrical energy goes straight into a rechargeable battery.
Since the 1920s the emphasis has been on increasing conventional generating unit size up to a now optimal size of 600, 000 kW. These must employ transmission and distribution lines to integrate electrical loads which almost always are much smaller, and also to integrate generating units to permit reserve sharing.
Roughly 70 percent of electrical power generated at a plant is lost in transmission lines.
Future versions will also allow wireless data transmission over radio frequencies, as well as over home electrical wiring.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
Electrical engineers at Stanford built a cardiac device that uses a combination of inductive and radiative transmission of power, at about 1.7 billion cycles per second, to its coiled receiving antenna.
ENGADGET: Stanford researchers make heart implant powered by radio waves, put batteries out of a job
应用推荐