01:02:05 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: Q: What has been the cost of the University microgrid and how much does it cost for operations? 01:04:02 Thorhaug Anitra: C: 4000 years when Chinese deforested. 01:04:43 Dave Dougherty CACOR: Q: Are there plans to add solar shading to the parking lots and to expand the arrays on the roofs? 01:05:41 Dave Dougherty CACOR: Q: Is the name the Pyrocene Epoch more appropriate than the Anthropocene? 01:11:18 John Meyer: C: Very cool Global temperature graph! 01:11:56 Jean Dougherty: C: What a great demonstration! 01:17:13 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: Q: Do SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) fit into your energy mix in the future for microgrids? 01:20:04 John Meyer: Q: Have you calculated the cost per residence of becoming a microgrid in northern regions? 01:25:53 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: Q: How fast is your cutover in milliseconds? 01:28:21 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: Q: Is there any DC in your microgrid system and if so where does it come from? 01:29:46 Peter Bulkowski: Q: How easy will it be to maintain a microgrid? Works for tech nerds / early adopters, but for the average homeowner, will there be continuous service costs, e.g. as is the case for internet access? How will a microgrid that involves many home owners, be managed? Again works for the tech nerds / early adopters, but for typical citizens, will there be management committees such as is the case for condos? 01:30:37 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: Q: Is geothermal in your plans? 01:32:47 Art Hunter: Q: Is there any provisions for Vehicleto-Grid connections including black start and islanding? 01:33:20 Paul Beckwith paulhenrybeckwith@gmail.com: Q: Do you have any testing of heat-pumps. In 2022, over 4 million heat-pumps were installed in USA, more than natural gas furnaces. Tech advancements allow them to operate in much colder climates. 01:37:51 Paul Beckwith paulhenrybeckwith@gmail.com: C: One barrel of oil has 1,400 kWh of energy. Human labor in one day puts out 0.6 kWh. Thus, one barrel does work of 11 years of human labor. Our daily energy use in fossil fuels would need 500 billion human workers. 8 billion on Earth, 4 billion workers. Source is Nate Hagen’s Superorganism. 01:42:19 Ted Manning: C: New work on nanotech applications to solar panels is taking place to develop operational panels which emulate older construction materials. They are now available to look like brick, several colours of roofing tiles and other materials. The biggest challenge right now is to get one working that looks like thatch, or cedar shingles. [Windows can be made into solar cells and solar cells can be places on vertical surfaces, too. Ed.] 01:43:04 Ted Manning: C: Our work with the tourism industry has identified several companies interested in funfing this if it looks useful for their resorts. 01:43:13 Paul Beckwith paulhenrybeckwith@gmail.com: Q: Can the microgrid power the whole university if the grid went down for several days? 01:50:44 Richard van der Jagt, MD: C: That cost puts it out of range of most people! 01:51:20 Richard van der Jagt, MD: C: That is why a community microgrid is a better idea. 01:51:47 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: C: I agree with Richard. 02:05:41 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: C: Princeton University has been running on a Microgrid since at least since 2012. 02:07:02 Richard van der Jagt, MD: C: A number of countries, such as Germany, stopped using nuclear. It costs billions of dollars and years to get off the ground. 02:07:31 Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering: C: Over 60 percent of electricity in Ontario is generated by nuclear power. 02:09:07 Mary Hegan: to everyone Q: Are you and Centre studying the N.American psyco-social incentives for public wanting/demanding microgrid system for own home and community? 02:11:28 Richard van der Jagt, MD: C: There is a tulip-shaped wind turbine. 02:11:39 Mary Hegan: Q: What are the links and human health benefits linked to development and trust of microgrids? 02:11:57 Paul Beckwith paulhenrybeckwith@gmail.com: C: Young adults terrified of climate change https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000032 02:13:22 Paul Beckwith paulhenrybeckwith@gmail.com: C: 37% of Canadian youth (age 16-25) are hesitant to ever have kids because of climate change; over half think humanity is doomed. Source is Nate Hagens paper, Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919310067