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Electricity 2.0: Applying the Lessons of the Web
Tom Raftery (tomraftery) - 03/11/2009
Utilities need to become more like the Internet: disparate, disconnected electrical grids will be joined up to give us one global electricity super-grid. Think about a super-grid where excess energy produced by Scandinavian wind farms on windy nights could simply be sold to meet capacity shortages in the U.S. as people arrive home from work, or in Japan as they start to wake up. If the grid was smart, publishing prices in real time, based on supply and demand fluctuations? And further, what if smart meters in homes and businesses could adjust appliances based on the real-time pricing (thermostats up/down, devices on/off, etc.) And what if, again like the Internet, the super-grid were read/write, i.e., if you could be a producer as well as a consumer? In this talk we will explain how this vision will be realized, which companies and geographies are leading the charge, and what you should do to encourage the change.
2015 - DLD10
Muhammad Yunus (muhammadyunus) - 01/25/2010
Begum Inaara Age Khan introduces the second Nobel Peace Price Laureate at DLD10, Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus is talking about the year 2015 and what needs to change and how we can all be a part of making 2015 a better world.
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