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As the smoke cleared, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, grok <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Surely there must be a simple teknology in the pipeline which will > > allow the storage of large amounts of electrical power on-site at any > > power generation site. > > There is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-sulfur_battery > > Terry Ya, I was actually thinking of such as exactly that (also direct heating by solar reflector of liquid sodium, etc.). But years have gone by since I first read about this stuff. So I was wondering if there was something even more efficient and 'elegant' now. Since there appears to still be so many issues involved in simply *doing* something. Anything. As evinced by all the heated discussion on the Internet and on this eList. In any case, I don't know how long the operating life of these systems would be; but they sure look being messy over the long-haul -- and an engineer's worst nightmare to service and replace, etc... - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn/KR8ACgkQXo3EtEYbt3FoWgCgleIo4CVvLSbcEXjtvWCNjgvb J6QAoLbMn+NTPHE4SO+cMsOCWumErDl+ =+Tct -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
