BONUS: Windowless Conference Room Edition

Ben Serrurier, Lea Fisher, Matt Schroettnig, and Paul Dockery share some energy themed maybe-good-maybe-bad-brainstorming ideas during a special windowless conference room in-person recording. Ben Serrurier, Lea Fisher, Matthew Schroettnig, and Paul Dockery were all in Anchorage, Alaska for NWPPA’s 83rd Annual Conference and Membership Meeting so they decided to borrow a windowless conference room for an informal brainstorming session about energy and energy-adjacent ideas. The format for the bonus episode is inspired by a Bill Simmons segment with Kevin Wildes on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” called “Half-Baked Ideas”1.  You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are electric utility enthusiasts, like us! 05:50 - Cowpoke ISO 09:20 - Kids & Grids Our Hidden Powers 14:18 - “Space: The Energy Frontier” - Space Elevator w/ Space Solar & Wireless Transmission PG&E; & Start-Up Solaren Corp. Plan To Beam Solar Power From Space 21:38 - Wireless Transmission, just on it’s own 24:09 - District cooling Deep Lake Water Cooling System 27:32 - Cut me off, conservation 36:28 - Text-to-bid for price responsive demand; $ for % load reduced https://twitter.com/kyrib/status/1544018634762231808?s=20&t;=7ewwz-xBMUixjkXEXe0BCw 45:30 - Connect & Manage for generator interconnection https://twitter.com/jacob_mays/status/1655966663135600640?s=20 50:02 - crypto as a battery; mandatory demand response programs for crypto mining facilities 52:02 - explain the grid to kids with jump rope https://twitter.com/NicoleKelner/status/1631352402086354945?s=20 52:57 - slower planes 55:58 - “Opt-in to save the distribution lines” // community infrastructure opt-in https://twitter.com/waDNR Public Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it’s work to watch! 1 the half-baked ideas segment starts at the 1:13:00 mark of the Bill Simmons Podcast episode