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"There is no energy supply problem, there is an energy distribution problem, and the emerging solution is a new world wide web of electricity." “There is no energy supply problem, there is an energy thrown its collective weight behind the initiative. It has distribution problem, and the emerging solution is a new world managed to link the advancement of Smart Grid to the wide web of electricity." reduction of carbon emissions, thus promising a tangible way to fight global warming. Genesis of the Global Smart Grid Founded in 1971, the WEF meets annually in Davos, The GENI website credits the late R. Buckminster Fuller | Switzerland. Attendees are mostly the "who's who" of the (1895-1983) as the conceptual father and designer of the global elite. global energy network. In his 1981 book Critical Path, Fuller The WEF presented a major progress report in January wrote: 2011 on the Energy Industry Partnership Programme and "...This world electric grid, with its omni-integrated __ referred to a recent energy publication: advantage, will deliver its electric energy anywhere, to "Accelerating Successful Smart Grid Pilots’, a World anyone, at any one time, at one common rate. This will | Economic Forum report developed with Accenture and make a world-around uniform costing and pricing system _ industry experts, sets out the centrality of smart grids as key for all goods and services based realistically on the time- enablers for a low-carbon economy and in response to energy metabolic accounting system of [the] Universe. increasingly growing energy demands. Over 60 industry, "In this cosmically uniform, common energy-value system policy and regulatory stakeholders were engaged in the for all humanity, costing will be expressed in kilowatt- ‘Accelerating Successful Smart Grid Pilots’ report, to hours, watt-hours and watt-seconds of work. Kilowatt- identify the factors that determine the success, or hours will become the prime criteria [sic] of costing the otherwise, of smart grid pilots... There is an opportunity to production of the complex of launch the next wave of metabolic involvements per each development towards a lower function or item. Electricity is delivered equally carbon energy system, and successful These uniform energy . smart grid pilots will be a key valuations will replace all the to all, and the price-based step in this process." (Emphasis world's wildly intervarying, ‘ ‘ added.) opinion-gambled-upon, top- ogi TIE system Ie replaced Mark Spelman, Global Head of power-system-manipulatable by a “time-energy world Strategy at Accenture, monetary systems. The time- accounting system” based on participated in the WEF's 2010 energy world accounting system , Smart Grid Workshop. When will do away with all the kilowatt-hours, watt-hours asked the question, "What value inequities now occurring in regard and watt-seconds. can Smart Grid add in the next 30 to the arbitrarily maneuverable years?", Spelman replied: "Smart international shipping of goods grids are absolutely fundamental and top economic power if we are going to achieve some of structure's banker-invented, international balance-of-trade our climate change objectives. If you like, smart grids are accountings. the glue, they're the energy Internet of the future, and they “It will eliminate all the tricky banking and securities- | are the essential component which is going to bring markets exploitations of all the around-the-world-time- | demand and supply together." zone activities differences in operation today, all unbeknownst to the at-all-times two billion humans who The IEEE Standards Association are sleeping." The global energy network, or Smart Grid, will operate If this sounds familiar, it should. It is an unvarnished re- —_ according to universally accepted engineering standards hash of 1930s-style Technocracy, except on a global, versus — that make data and energy flows compatible with each continental, scale. other. Who will supply such standards? The venerable Electricity is delivered equally to all, and the price-based _ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). economic system is replaced by a "time-energy world [The IEEE claims that it is "the world's largest accounting system" based on kilowatt-hours, watt-hours professional association dedicated to advancing and watt-seconds. technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of There is no evidence that such a system will ever work, — humanity". but that hasn't stopped global groups from rushing Founded in 1884, it has been involved with electricity headlong into this global initiative. Take, for instance, the | standards and development since Thomas Edison World Economic Forum... invented the light bulb. Today, however, the IEEE is Electricity is delivered equally to all, and the price-based economic system is replaced a bya “time-energy world accounting system” based on kilowatt-hours, watt-hours The IEEE Standards Association The global energy network, or Smart Grid, will operate according to universally accepted engineering standards that make data and energy flows compatible with each other. Who will supply such standards? The venerable Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE claims that it is "the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity". Founded in 1884, it has been involved with electricity standards and development since Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Today, however, the IEEE is massively global, with 395,000 members in 160 countries, and it supports approximately 900 active standards in various fields of engineering and electronics. World Economic Forum and Climate Change If sceptics were to question the seriousness of organisations like TerraWatts and GENI, they should consider that the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF) has 32 * NEXUS and watt-seconds. Continued on page 81 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com