Best Use for Wind energy?

[Jones Beene]

Because wind energy is becoming cheaper, but is often not available when or where it is most needed, here is a suggestion on the best way to store wind energy.   Produce liquid air for a transportation fuel (i.e. energy storage medium).   Let me repeat (as a query ) one more time for emphasis. Is there any better way to use wind energy (in the near future) than to produce liquid air?   Why? With Dewars, liquid air can be stored for weeks without loosing much energy. You can make it in areas (like that Sioux reservation in the FSB article) which are a few days by dewar-truck from major metropolitan areas. Also because of the continuous free airflow around the windmill itself, the heat of compression can be removed from air as it is being produced on the mill. Also because mechanical compressors are much cheaper than electric generators, these wind farms should cost less.   As a transport fuel liquid air is competitive with gasoline at about $2. per gallon (according to the references below), which is the present price. Do you think that the price of gasoline will go down anytime soon?   Efficiency of these liquid air engines should skyrocket once Detroit learns how to utilize the Casimir force, or the AEH force, in the fuel by incorporating nano-particulates (such as electrolyzed clathrate-hydrates). All they need do is tune-in for advice from vortex  ;-)   First things first. We need to develop a market for liquid air engines, even the "old style". Here is some good resource material. http://www.phys.unt.edu/~cordonez/thecb.html   Just say adieu to CO2....   Jones   Maybe Detroit would pay more attention to these "great ideas" if we could charge an exorbitant consulting fee?   Hey Bill, why not charge Detroit a few  $mm/per yr. for unlimited vortex access... and of course, split it with the pundits... ;-)