Mauro Lacy wrote: > Edmund Storms wrote: > >> And thus we see the basic flaw in wind generation. Unless a backup >> source of power is in place and can be connected to an active grid, >> wind power is not practical. >> > You can use an intermediate stage as energy storage. Why not produce > Hidrogen with wind (and solar) power, and burn that hydrogen when wind > or solar is scarce? Not a backup, a buffer. > If you are concerned with the dangers and complications of Hidrogen > storage or transportation, you can use wind and/or solar to refine > Aluminium, and later burn that Al to produce Aluminium Oxide and > Hidrogen. Aluminium Oxide can be recicled indefinitely, and the Hidrogen > and heat generated used to produce electric power. >
I forgot to mention that Al must be "burned" (oxidized) with water to render Aluminium Oxide and Hidrogen. > Electric cars can be used to replace explosion cars, and Al can even > possibly be used as a fuel, with some modifications to actual explosion > cars, by burning it and producing Hidrogen on demand, and burning the > Hidrogen in turn in the slighty modified explosion motor. I've made the > calculations some years ago, and around 100 kgs of Aluminium were > equivalent in autonomy and power to a full tank of gasoline. In the > You must carry the water also (probably a significative percentaje of it can be recycled). I don't remember exactly now, but I think that around 150 Kg of water plus Al where equivalent to a full tank of gasoline; something along those lines.
