The Ammonia Fuel Network’s Executive Direct John Holbrook was good enough to send me a few DVD’s in which Bill Leighty made presentations on the numbers that surround ammonia a fuel. I was struck by a number of things. First, …
Ammonia Fuel Network — Great Presentation on Energy Storage and Transmission Read More »
As promised, here is a description of various technologies and will they be able to support the objective. Compressed Air Compressed air is an old technology which consumes off peak energy from a power plant or renewable energy to run …
Energy Storage for Power Grids – by Guest Blogger Anil – Continued Read More »
The Obama administration declared year 2009 as the one dedicated to ‘Smart Grids.’ There has been lot of hue and cry turning the electrical grids into a modern network that runs with the help of microprocessors and software to work …
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Peter Buzzard comments on my post “Molten Salt Energy Storage” as follows: “That was an interesting article. I didn’t know a combined cycle could be made to be that efficient… What about simply heating water with molten salt in a …
In response to my recent piece on solar thermal and molten salt, a reader admonishes: You assume that “molten” salt is universally available over the entire power grid? Get real! Apparently, I’m not describing this as clearly as I thought …
