Allen R. Gale's Blog (3)

Distributed, Decoupled Electric Generation

There is a lot of talk about modernizing the national power grid. Not a bad idea since it has caused major blackouts/brownouts in the past 20 years or so and is seriously overburdened now, not considering the expansion of need due to increasing population. However, just modernizing the grid - even with the additions of the "Smart-Grid" auto switching and reporting (shades of "big Brother again?) facilities, is not enough. Distributed Generation - or Decoupling, as Fmr. Pres. Clinton termed it -… Continue

Added by Allen R. Gale on February 25, 2009 at 1:49pm — 4 Comments

Pickens Out to Save America

Pickens Out to Save America -- This is a byline I picked up from one of the interviews or commentaries about T. Boone and his plan. There is probably more truth than sarcasm in this statement - as this is, is it not, what we are all really concerned about? I hated history until I returned to college at 35 or so, and then really got into it. If we look at our economic history, we will see that many of the early industrialists and entrepenours (sp) were of the same mindset. How do you thin… Continue

Added by Allen R. Gale on October 30, 2008 at 2:23pm — 2 Comments

Introduction:

Who am I? I am a semi-retired engineer, originally from Connecticut, now living in Atlanta, GA by way of CO, FL, NH, MA, and IN. I have 35 years of engineering experience in electronics, RF technologies, systems and software, industrial and commercial controls, particl accellerators and other sundry gadgets. I am now a Realtor in South Metro Atlanta. In the 70's I got interested in alternate energy systems in conjunction with the "new shelter" phenom championed at the time by Rodale Press, amo… Continue

Added by Allen R. Gale on September 6, 2008 at 8:15pm — No Comments