To: Myrddin
Roger that. I was also thinking of long distance transportation. One of the difficulties of electrical generation is that it needs to be fairly close to the consumer. Long distance transmission is terribly inefficient, and means losing non-trivial amounts of power the farther it goes. This sounds like it might be a good way of storing up energy in one place and moving it over long distances.
54 posted on
04/11/2012 1:38:04 PM PDT by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
This sounds like it might be a good way of storing up energy in one place and moving it over long distances.CNG meet pipeline. Solar electric + water + CO2 ->CNG.
55 posted on
04/11/2012 1:52:30 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: Ramius
The equation might work with "wind electric" too. The key being "storage" via compressed methane.
56 posted on
04/11/2012 1:54:00 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: Ramius
One of the difficulties of electrical generation is that it needs to be fairly close to the consumer. We run HV transmission lines for hundreds of miles for cost effective generation to consumer.
Long distance transmission is terribly inefficient
A few percentage points of loss is terribly inefficient?
57 posted on
04/11/2012 1:59:20 PM PDT by
thackney
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