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TRANSFORMER POWER!

Once the correct system is chosen for the area a secondary routing plan needs to be considered - except instead of that why not build it as a spider would? Consider the design of a complex spider web - and I don’t mean the spiral. Ever seen a ground spider’s web? It has communication lines that extend out way past the web, and inside the web you will see everything is interconnected. A spiral web is no good, you cut one strand on the right spot and the whole thing goes to hell in a hand basket faster than a fat man in front of an all you can eat. However, the complex design that is shown by ground spider, and even the Black Widow can sustain damage to them and still remain functional - it’s because many of the different lines interconnect and create redundancies. Let’s say you have a small grid. If one segment on that grid goes out, and it is connected completely around, power will stay on. If two segments are KOed then you will see anything between those two have died - if there are any single points of failure, many areas will be blacked out. Simple solution? Trace a line between all the points. You will get something like this:

Now you see, anyone between those will have power, even if a line is damaged in two places. Furthermore a re-routing system could be installed on every transformer - so that electric current could be routed to an alternate backup on the scene - the main transformer would be replaces while power is routed to a cheap effective alternate. Once replaced power would be routed back through the new good one. The need for this is in the need to keep the Highway system up, keep the country up, and keep all power and juice flowing.

If we were to use a new kind of power system that involved large pipes underground rather than smaller ones, let’s say these pipes are about as big as a NYC single track subway, and these lines ran to all the major cities and under all the highways - we could eliminate the hassle of digging them up. Humans could fit in them, inspect the massive double lines that ran through them - or in an alternate case robots could be used. Automatons which are able to detect and repair common errors with human input, along with the technologies that allow surgeons to make repairs using electronic tools over the internet could be used to carry out the most dangerous tasks underground. In addition to being a great backbone for the electrical grid and requiring another massive labor operation to spur the entire world’s economy - it could be upgraded without major inconveniences - and because it is powered a huge fiber optics network could be installed underground, putting our national throughput of technology way past 10gbs of the Internet2. Massive amounts of data could be transmitted at ones, speeds past a terabyte per second. With the right amount of actual lines it could transmit petabytes and even yottabytes. This would eliminate the usage of satellites - and save cash by not tossing trillions into space just to become space junk. Instead these satellite systems would only be used for intercontinental communications - and that’s just until I have a better way. This would allocate the resources for space that I would need for Project Venom and Project Jupiter while also furthering the Metaverse goal on earth.

Now back on to the show! Part IV tomorrow