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valuable energy lesson the natural world offers us involves the theme of locally captured and distributed energy. As noted earlier, life on Earth is made possible by green plants capturing and storing a small portion of local incoming solar energy in the form of simple sugars. This chemical energy is eventually passed on to all other biota along food webs that end with the detritus feeders consuming the dead plant and animal materials and their waste products. Although the preponderance of natural world energy is procured and distributed locally, this local power concept has not been mirrored in our developed world. On the contrary, large centralized commercial power plants rely on coal, natural gas, and enriched uranium from distant sources, and utilities maintain expansive and expensive electrical grid distribution systems that supply millions of scattered industrial, commercial, and residential customers throughout the developed world. The state of the antiquated U.S. electrical grid system is poor, as illustrated by the series of regional brownouts and complete power failures experienced in the recent past. Transitioning to locally distributed power production makes much more sense in the long run when compared with efforts to maintain a design-flawed and outdated centralized power infrastructure.Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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