There are plenty of reports that extol the virtue of replacing beef farming with meat products that are derived from the various proteins found in plants, e.g., the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. Meat and dairy rely on huge quantities …
Tag: Advanced Rail Energy Storage
Concept in Energy Storage
Here’s another one of those clean energy concepts that falls under the category: “will ‘work,’ but would be so ridiculously expensive that it will never be built.” It’s an idea in the energy storage space that’s a variant of “advanced …
New, Completely Unworkable Concept in Energy Storage
Six or eight years ago, a client paid me a small fee to provide my opinion of a concept called “advanced rail energy storage,” or “ARES.” It’s essentially pumped hydro without the hydro. In other words, it replaces water with …
New, Completely Unworkable Concept in Energy Storage Read More »
Achieving Economies of Scale with Clean Energy Concepts
My colleague Aedan Kernan helped us out with many different writing projects in the old days of 2GreenEnergy, though I thought we had lost touch with one another. But in response to my piece on inductive EV charging and other …
Achieving Economies of Scale with Clean Energy Concepts Read More »
Will Highways of the Future Offer Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles?
My good friend Cameron Atwood asked for my comments on this concept of electrifying our highways by installing inductive charging in a certain lane of each of our major roadways. The attraction, of course, is that the concept eliminates, or …
Will Highways of the Future Offer Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles? Read More »
Tagged with: Advanced Rail Energy Storage, cheap and portable energy storage, electrifying our highways, Highways of the Future, Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles, installing inductive charging in a certain lane of our major roadways, limited range that EVs currently suffer due to the limited battery capacity, promising new battery chemistries, sodium-ion, zinc-air
Advanced Rail Energy Storage
Regarding the webinar I did on Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), Matthew Graham writes: This is the best idea for grid level storage I have seen. Why such little publicity? This is so simple and beautiful you would think it …
Utility-Scale Energy Storage
Energy giant Alstom has nailed down a 120 million Euro contract to build a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in Israel. Currently, there is 129 gigawatts of this technology installed around the globe, and, as we sit here today, …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage – Demo and Barbecue
I’m headed up to the deserts of California tomorrow to check out an important event in renewable energy history. To be specific, I’ll be on the outskirts of Tehachapi, a small town noted in song, to see a demo of …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage – Demo and Barbecue Read More »
Demand Response Is a Big Deal
It’s been only two years since FERC (The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) announced that it would allow DR (demand response) to be treated the same as any other dispatchable power source. But in those two years, a great deal …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage — Webinar
Here’s a webinar I conducted yesterday on Advanced Rail Energy Storage, or ARES, a new concept in cost-effective, grid-scale energy storage. I interviewed ARES CEO Jim Kelly, and covered a range of issues spanning the physics and economics of energy …
