Interesting Wind/Hydrogen Concept
This just in from Hugh F off the hybridCARS.com site. Not sure it's as common an idea as he thinks. I like it:
"I am sure this is mentioned alot, but it seems that wind generation just needs to be moved one step off of the grid to increase its value and competitiveness. If wind turbines were used to create hydrogen, and then the hydrogen was stored and used to create the electricity (possibly with large scale fuel cells) the capacity/reliability of the wind system would be dramatically increased. Down side is that the upfront costs would increase, but it seems like it is worth discussion."
AEman thinks this approach might alleviate the need for having to build fully redundant convential backup generation which would be an economic horror show and simply wouldn't happen.
posted by Andy Bochman at 10:14 PM
 
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