Comments on: Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars

Exploring the link between renewable energy and smart-grid technology, IBM joins a research effort in Denmark to optimize wind energy output with plug-in electric car charging.

[kacirooroo]

There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. No one single factor affects our economy more or trickles down further than the high cost of fuel. This past year the high cost of fuel did serious damage to our economy and society. We shouldn't allow other countries to have that much control over our economy. We need to become a nation that is totally energy independent.

[sanenazok]

How nice...all of it...is very nice. It's all about change and hope for the future and moving forward as a nation since the best days are still ahead of us. Where did you pull up that "wind potential of North Dakota" BS from? Even wind power blowhards agree that wind power can't contribute more than 20% of the country's energy needs. Suddenly you have all cars being powered by wind power from North Dakota. Uhm ok. Look at the T. Boone Picken's plan, which states that using all the wind power capacity from northern Texas to the Canadian border would produce AS MUCH AS 20%. He states this as a positive of his program. Sounds like a perfect way to dump a TRILLION. By the way Boone's plan covers: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

[MD_Willington]

You want to support an American company that is at the forefront and has been at the forefront of smart for 25 years now?

A small, but world renowned US employee owned company, not a global conglomerate owned by a bunch of greedy shareholder and venture capitalists?

Support Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman WA.

http://www.selinc.com/

SEL has being putting smart into the grid for 25 years now, they started with putting the smarts into the grid back in 1984 and they are still at it with Excel today in Boulder CO...

http://smartgridcity.xcelenergy.com/

V2G: Smart grids meet electric vehicles
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13511_3-9860342-22.html

Recently one of their smart products was spotted on planet green for the episode where they installed a wind turbine.. The SEL 547...

This isn't a sales pitch, they really do know what they are doing, otherwise, why would all the "big boys" in the industry be hounding them? and even better, sourcing equipment from them for their own tenders?