Climate Change – Electricity, Clean Energy


Climate Change – Electricity, Clean Energy

15th October 2018

For some time, I’ve given thought to electricity and its supply. Our telegraph pole and wire system is a fairly high maintenance method of delivery and not without issues ie., weather events, winds, lightning, flooding etc. There is a large cost maintaining the system, replacing poles, renewing worn parts, trimming trees and then there is larger issue, the generating of the electricity itself.
With weather events on the increase and severity, this in turn is going to increase maintenance and power outs in those affected regions. So I asked myself, is the future of electricity, the method of delivery, viable? It isn’t. It has been wonderful to have electric to our homes, but it isn’t viable when considering repair and upkeep to the pole and wire system if there is a more suitable and cost effective method available. (The timber and so forth as well.)

The bigger issue: we have to have clean energy to power our homes, its imperative.

It makes sense for a house on land, to, if possible, produce it’s own power. Solar energy is one method, but then there are cloudy days and night times. I thought about a system that could generate power without requiring much power to do so. Something that could run perpetually, and I came up with a rotating water wheel design that delivers constantly running water via the use of stainless steel and magnets. Though it may sound crude in design initially, time would perfect such a design. Nor would it have to be a large system. The energy created would go to the same storage system as the solar energy and the two sources of energy would/should compliment one another and provide more than enough clean energy to power our homes.

The electricity companies could build/maintain these systems. These systems would provide energy that would essentially be free, thus affecting the incomes of companies that provide electricity, which is why I suggest the electric companies to build/maintain such systems.
By Fiona MacLeod©2018