Brain Gym Email of the Day - Nov 20
This just in from C. Davis in Texas:
Regarding the tide turbine approach, what if you were to:
- add a wind turbine
- add photovoltaic
- use abandoned oil rigs as the basis for your structure
- capture the economies of putting multiple energy production sources on one structure
- capture the economies of putting multiple production sources at a common node on the grid
This would let you capitalize on the fact that each source might be at peak production at different times: tidal movement versus windy versus sunny, thus smoothing out the power production curve (compensating for the intermittency of each method) optimizing power flow through a given transmission capacity that you've paid for. It would have to be a special place that accommodates the three conditions, but because of the economies the layering offers, it might not have to be as special.
posted by Andy Bochman at 1:06 PM
 
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