Zapped: The grid is on life support. Can AI fix it?

Greg Nichols discusses

America's electric system is long overdue for an overhaul. With a 2021 American Society of Civil Engineering report finding that 70% of T&D lines are over 25 years old, it's no shock that large, sustained outages are occurring with increased frequency throughout the country.

Last year, major outages in California and Texas were both triggered by extreme weather events, causing local power demand to exceed supply. With climate change fueling extreme...

Fort Nelson First Nation, Hydrogen Naturally say first-of-its-kind plant being designed to process harvest and fibre residuals into carbon-negative hydrogen.

Plans are afoot to develop the former OSB and plywood plants in Fort Nelson into a proposed new $1.2-billion hydrogen facility.

In a joint statement released Tuesday, the Fort Nelson First Nation and Hydrogen Naturally Inc. said they were working together to study the feasibility of the project, which could produce...

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference
For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.

This year will be the 26th annual summit – giving it the name COP26. With the UK as President, COP26 takes place in Glasgow.

https://ukcop26.org/...

Cornell University researchers are using quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to make a smarter power grid to reduce blackouts and other issues.

Fumbling to find flashlights during blackouts may soon be a distant memory, as quantum computing and artificial intelligence could learn to decipher an electric grid’s problematic quirks and solve system hiccups so fast, humans may not notice.

Rather than energy grid faults turning into giant problems – such as...

Keep a close watch on this disruptive safe hydrogen storage technology. https://plasmakinetics.com/ Could be a better way to store waste energy from Waste Water Plants, Solar, Wind.

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