utgg wrote: > On their own they aren't going do anything, of course. But most forms of > renewable energy will also require huge amounts of energy storage in > order not to still require fossil fuel generators on standby to fill in > the gaps. And with pretty well all forms of energy usage moving over to > electricity, this standby capacity would actually need to be many fold > larger than the total current fossil fuelled generating capacity, to > cover those windless and sunless times. So energy storage is still a > very important thing to be working on...
Yes my company is working on that and also have interest in wind power . That would be a good combination . One plan is to use used battery packs from electrical cars and run them down further as energy storage before recycling , as the car owner might not like it when the battery is of 60% of its original storage capacity . But in an energy storage facility space and weight are not as big an issue as in a vehicle . But even a fossil power plant is actually more efficient than a piston engine . Most of it leaves the exhaust as heat . A large turbine is somewhat more efficient . I haven't studied thermodynamics in a while so I have not the exact figures , but the piston engine is a looser :) especially petrol , diesel is better . In colder climates you can use the waste heat from the power plant for district heating . Then you actually use 90% of the energy . But the waste heat from nuclear facilities is not used for heating , chickens I say ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104207 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
