A World Of Abundance
Once we digitised music and video it became so cheap it was everywhere for virtually zero cost. Then we digitised communication and it is so cheap now it is virtually free. What if we digitise energy, using wind and solar managed by digital automated software. It will be at almost zero cost. What if we digitise our food by putting supermarkets online, with robotic controls selecting our products from warehouse shelving, and delivering it to us in automated pods. The future of virtually zero cost goods and services is right in front of us.
Energy
Already in so many homes people are using renewable energy such as solar and wind to power their homes. Battery technology is improving all the time to store the excess energy that is created so it can be used on days where the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow. Automation will soon allow the excess energy to be sold to anyone, anywhere, allowing us to share our energy production. The cost will be virtually zero, once we have set up the initial wind turbines and solar panels. Digital automation will enable us to generate all the electricity we need to power our homes, fuel our cars and even heat our homes with the use of modern air source heat pumps, rather than the gas central heating we rely on now.
- Conversion to wind and solar energy
- Storage of excess energy in batteries or hydrogen gas
- Making domestic installations cheaper
- Improvements to battery storage technology, particularly cost
Current Orion Media Projects
Orion Media is pushing for a world where everything is digitised.
Our Project: Dashboard for Renewable Energy Management
Managing domestic wind turbines requires some form of energy storage. Here we built a dashboard for a client who needed to monitor the weather forecast, models to predict energy production from domestic wind turbines, and monitoring and prediction of battery storage.
