‘liquid air’
can store electricity
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(one of) the problems with wind turbines is that the wind doesn't cooperate. Sometimes electricity is needed when the wind doesn't blow. Sometimes the wind blows when electricity isn't needed. Sometimes the wind blows TOO MUCH.
Some type of 'buffer' is needed to balance the supply/demand cycle.
This will do that.
Never mind how efficient it is. That doesn't matter. Either the 'off time' electricity from the wind turbines is stored....or it's wasted. Nice wind turbine you got there...shame to waste 80% of it's potential. Yup...windfarms only operate at about 20%.
Shame that.
This could solve that problem.
An Island in the Azores, Off the coast of portugal, uses the wind excess to desalinate water. When they have reached their goal for fresh water, they pump it up several thousand feet into a dormant volcano caldera. When they need power in low wind conditions, they run Hydroelectric generators (kind of like the GRDA does). The next day, they pump that same fresh water back up hill. They run their back up diesel that used to supply the entire island once a year to test it. They are also supplying other islands with drinking water, and they have farms, because they can irrigate.
That said, these wind generators suck, Very poor design!
:(Also, a single alternate energy source, is a poor choice. I will begin with Solar, but I will add wind ASAP. When one does not work well, the other generates solid power.
:)Excellent points...
Thanks, I love alternate energy!
:)Personally, I think solar seems to be a better option. Those turbines take up way too much land that I think could be put to better use.
wind turbines take up less land than solar.
solar needs a buffer too.
Wind turbines take up
Less land than solar. solar
Needs a buffer too.
- everittdmickey
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California already needs a storage system since they pay Arizona to take their excess solar generated day time power. Of coarse solar panel technology will have to improve faster than the pollution haze increase for this to continue to be an issue for California.
Have you ever heard of the La Brea tar pits?
Did you know that the 'pollution' haze existed in california long before the white man arrived, much less automobiles.
connect the dots..