Fossil Fuels to 100 Renewables Rinaldo Brutoco Founding President amp CEO World Business Academy 2020 Alameda Padre Serra Suite 135 Santa Barbara CA 93103 Phone 8058924600 ID: 492887
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Democratizing Power:
Fossil Fuels to 100 % Renewables
Rinaldo BrutocoFounding President & CEO, World Business Academy
2020 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 135
Santa Barbara, CA
93103
Phone: 805-892-4600
Email:
Info@WorldBusiness.orgSlide2
1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone
call.
E
very phone call required long copper wires to connect callers.
Because of system limitation, at it’s peak, only ~23% of the world’s people ever had access to wired phones
.
19
st
Century TechnologySlide3
1973: Martin Cooper makes the first cell phone call.
By
2010, 600 million people
had cell phones. As of
2014, 6 Billion people
around the planet had access to cell phones.
20
st
Century TechnologySlide4
The cell phone and the rise of the mobile Internet has been key to the advances in health
, education, commerce, and democracy
throughout the developing world. Social media played a key role in the popular uprisings in the middle east in 2010 and 2011.
(Photo: Egypt 2011
, Getty Images)Slide5
19
st Century Technology
The current electricity grid system has the same limitation as the telephone: it requires long wires. Because of this, rural villages remain dark, poor, and cut off from communications technology and education.
Worldwide 1 billion people lack access to electricity.
200-300 million people lack access to the grid in India. 40% rely on kerosene for lighting
Only 1 in 8 people in Sub-Saharan Africa has access to reliable electricity.Slide6
Access to electricity =
Access to the Internet = Access to information
Access to information and education is key to the rights of women, and closing the “Digital Divide.” Without access to the Internet, people fall further and further behind. Information is the best antidote to terrorism.
(Photo: Google’s Asia Pacific Blog)Slide7
19
st Century Technology
Currently developing countries are stuck either with darkness or reliant on dirty, expensive, and noisy diesel-fired generators like the one below. Families face a choice between deadly air or no electricity – if they’re lucky. For over a billion people, kerosene stoves or dung fires are an everyday reality with the coincident rise of deadly indoor air.
Diesel-
F
ired
G
eneratorSlide8
Events like storms, mudslides, and even just
a single squirrel
can plunge entire regions into darkness.Centralized systems are vulnerable to terrorism and cyber-attack. Old technology holds back advanced clean energy development.
New York City Hurricane Sandy – 2012
Canadian Ice Storm – 1998
Another “19
st
Century Technology”
In the developed world, the aging grid system is vulnerable
.Slide9
He is buying all of his family members a three month supply of freeze-dried food for Christmas this year.
His purpose: stimulate a national conversation on the alternatives and solutions.
GRID VULNERABILITY – A Significant Risk
Ted Koppel just published a comprehensive look at the nightmarish threat from a cyber attack on the US power grid.
His takeaway:
The US is incredibly vulnerable to massive disruption from cyber attack on our three major electricity grids. Slide10
Our system relies on two 220kv lines that come up from the South and over the Santa
Ynez mountains. These lines currently provide 69% of our power.
Very little backup power exists today.GRID VULNERABILITY – A Certainty on Our Doorstep
Santa Barbara County is at risk
(Source: Southern California
Edison
https://goo.gl/
s5ym8R
)
You are
hereSlide11
VIDEO: Santa Barbara’s Power Infrastructure
Highly Vulnerable
(Video courtesy of KEYT News Channel 3. Full Report: http://goo.gl/RKbG70)
KEYT Report: South SB County’s Power Infrastructure VulnerableSlide12
According to
Southern California Edison
(SCE) fires, earthquakes, and landslides all threaten our connection to the grid. They predict an outage of weeks or more if this connection is broken.GRID DISRUPTION – This year?
An El Niño landslide could knock us off the grid.
This small block of exposed concrete and many others like it are all that stands between normal life and rolling blackouts lasting weeks or even months if the ground remains saturated from the storms.
(Source: Southern California Edison
https://goo.gl/
s5ym8R
)Slide13
A BREAKTHROUGH: 21
st
Century Technology
Community Microgrids:advanced technology for local renewable energy
“Islands” of electricity for resilience.
Integrate 100% renewable energy.
Create energy independence.
Local jobs and markets for solar, storage, and other energy services.
Begin creating local renewable transportation fuel (hydrogen).
Resilient in the face of cyber terrorism, natural disaster, and increasingly violent storms.Slide14
Video: UC San Diego’s advanced
microgrid system
2.8 MW Fuel Cell, 2.3 MW Solar PV, 30 MW Cogeneration methane-fired plantSavings of $8 million/year compared with power from Statewide gridExperimenting with various advanced storage systems
Goal: carbon neutral campus by 2025
UC San Diego’s Advanced Microgrid SystemSlide15Slide16
The Future:
Networked Community Microgrids
Each Community Microgrid can support neighboring microgrids, creating a resilient “networked” system.Slide17
Community
Microgrid
Local “Community
Microgrids
” are built to serve every substation – approximately 10k-50k people.
Energy is generated and managed locally and used locally, greatly increasing efficiency.
Integrating local renewable energy systems is “Plug and Play,” making them simple to finance in bulk.
100% OR MORE of energy used in California can come from renewables. Excess can be exported or used for transportation.
The Future: Local Energy Production
California
MicrogridsSlide18
100% renewable energy
microgrid
for village communitiesSlide19
How do we advance from that success to 100% renewable energy and revolutionize energy systems at the village level, as well as a replacement for the grid in the US?Slide20
STORAGE
:flow batteryHydrogen
Li-ion phosphate batteriesPump and store…and many more.
100% Renewable energy tapped at the microgrid
level replacing ALL long-distance transmission lines globally. Slide21
VIDEO: Flow Battery for Energy Storage
(Video from Harvard
Gazette http://goo.gl/w9bQak)
Flow Battery for Energy StorageSlide22
Storing Excess Energy as Hydrogen
Community Waste Water (Gray Water)
H
2
gas stored, later creates electricity on demand, or sold as a transport fuel.
Excess electricity
+
Electrolyzer
turns water and electricity into clean, carbon free hydrogen gas
.
Hydrogen gas (
H
2
) is a powerful store of energy.
H
H
Electrolyzer
All excess renewable energy stored
as “renewable hydrogen” for later use!Slide23
Storage
ISN’T the problem. The
WILL to create an alternative future is the only thing that’s missing.All of these technologies, woven together
to create the fabric of a new society at the village and community level, will create a
radically improved future for California and the world.
YOU GET THE POINT…Slide24
Economic Opportunity
This
solution is applicable in every community in the world.
The Community Microgrid solution can integrate with existing energy systems to protect critical facilities, gradually replacing aging grids
with distributed, local energy.Alternatively this solution can be built from the ground up in developing communities, which currently do not have adequate electricity systems
and don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the industrial nations.
This solution, coupled with pioneering leadership and investment, can catalyze unimaginable growth in the advanced energy industry, and the global economy as a whole.
The World Business Academy believes that this is the SOLUTION we’ve all been waiting for.Slide25
VIDEO: A Clean Energy “Moonshot” for California and the World
(Video from World Business Academy
http://goo.gl/FJUupk)
The Clean Energy MoonshotSlide26
Questions? Contact us!
Democratizing Power:
Fossil Fuels to 100 % Renewables
Phone: 805-892-4600 Email: Info@WorldBusiness.org
WorldBusiness.org
2020
Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 135
Santa Barbara, CA
93103