1. Things we can do to keep power in the lines.
-recycling. This can happen at any time of day, and could be conducted during periods of low power
consumption, or excess production.
-manufacturing. Many manufacturing processes may be able to occur this way.
-street lights. We can have brighter lights or heating lights.
-heated streets, underground infrastructure
-raise weights. There could be trash storage, recycling storage, just rock or metal, and a number of other
things that could be lifted on a track such that when they were lowered it would drive a generator.
In a loop, there would be a need to consume power that was generated during times of low
consumption. There may be a storm, or a lull in energy availability that results in excess heat in the
future due to making up for the lull with fuel consumption.
The “loop” would be where the energy is at all times, assuming we can keep the energy within a system.
The system would be comprised of wind, heat, electricity within the power lines, light produced, etc.
Electricity moves very rapidly, but while it is electricity it is still energy within the loop. Heat moves very
slowly by comparison, and to think of the cycle might be confusing, but the logic is simple. Energy is
neither created nor destroyed. If we are able to harvest the convection currents created by our
consumed energy, then we will be able to harvest energy that is directly available due to our energy
consumption.
The energy flow is likely more complicated still. The convection current causes the energized air to rise,
and surrounding air to fill its place. If we harvest energy from the filling air, we actually remove energy
form the air that we did not energize with our waste. The energy in the air that has risen should in part
transfer downward, due to the difference in energy, but much of the energy would move into the upper
atmosphere. This energy should disperse, due to the amount of energy harvested, and likely could
disperse to within the urban area given an adequate surface area, such as a major metropolitan area.
Thermodynamics laws might mean that as the air rises, the energy transfers to kinetic energy, and the
energy may transfer through the air mass such that we are harvesting the waste heat directly, and the
energy isn’t actually coming from the replacement air until the energy has already transferred.
The first key to creating a loop would be to harvest wind power within the urban environment. All wind
power harvesting lowers the atmospheric energy balance, and all waste energy increases the energy
balance, but a closer harvest may be more beneficial in a number of ways, although this must be studied
due to energy use potentials and effects.