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another promising storage for sites like that is hydrogen production and storage during periods when its not needed and burning when it is.
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Molten salts have a way higher energy density, which is what makes them so promising. You do need to get them to high temperatures, but good insulation should be able to keep the heat inside the battery.

30-Oct-2011 23:19:02

dunforgiven

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oh man, and here i was thinking this was a new thread. that is really bad.
you will be missed, man.

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03-Sep-2011 11:28:17
Indeed there is a pattern when you look at graphs going back thousands of years, but if you look closer, you'll notice that our current warm period is warmer than previous ones, like the medieval warm period and you'll also see that it's coming a bit early.ears
actually no, if you check the proxies they dont show this as being warmer than any other period. infact based on proxies alone, this is the 5th of 6 warming periods of the current interglacerial period. frankly my dear, I couldn't give a dam. never had a river to build one on.
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31-Oct-2011 19:01:53 - Last edited on 31-Oct-2011 19:04:46 by dunforgiven

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Problem with Hydrogen as fuel.
1. It requires WAY more energy to remove it from water than you actually get from burning the fuel, so, you are better of using an electric car (even then, you get electricity from burning fossil fuels).
2. Hydrogen exists as a gas at R = 8.314 (typical gas constant here on Earth) and as a result, it is requiring a large pressure or a very cold temperature in order to make it transportable to decrease its size to make it more efficient to transport.
3. Since Hydrogen would be compressed to such a degree, if an accident would befall the driver, there is a problem being that it would cause a far worse destructive force than a petrol fuelled car. :|
Positives - No CO2 produced, only H2O.
Negatives far outweigh the positives. Also, it is not commercially viable yet. :|

05-Nov-2011 16:26:36

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same with algea fuels. if gass goes up above 4.15 and stays there, it would become commercially feiseable, and perhaps new technology will bring the cost down. frankly my dear, I couldn't give a dam. never had a river to build one on.
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06-Nov-2011 00:54:51

Abbem 20

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Governments are often counter-productive to new technologies. They speak as if they really want those to take the place of old fossil fuel technologies, but they never take action in that direction. New technologies are rarely ever commercially viable from the start, as there are no established production lines for cheap mass-production, which current technologies do have. Government funding is required to set up these production lines, but governments rarely ever support this. This way it will take much longer for new technologies to compete with older methods.

07-Nov-2011 12:34:56

dunforgiven

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ive considered building algea tanks and converting the algea to vegitible oil and burning it in a boiler to make electricity to sell to the local electric company (by law they have to pay the cost of producing it via the current fuel cost, and since they have to go to natural gas after the first, that will be a bit higher). since there will be no cost involve with transporting it, all i will have to spend money on is the materials to build the tanks. i would use the grey water from my septic tank for food for the algea, then pumping the co2 from the burning fuel back into the tank to give it higher co2. a small windmill can provide the pumping to keep the water circulated. frankly my dear, I couldn't give a dam. never had a river to build one on.
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08-Nov-2011 01:51:58 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2011 01:53:09 by dunforgiven

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