Another Way To Store Power
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Here at Chad’s News, we’ve previously covered one of the problems with intermittent energy sources like solar and wind: how to store the power so that it can be used on-demand. Until that happens, the need for traditional fossil fuel plants will remain.
The linked article describes a large battery nicknamed BOB, that will provide reliable power to the town of Presidio, Texas. The battery is expensive ($25 million), and the town is small (pop. 4167), so I’m not sure how well this would work on a larger scale. But it’s a step in the right direction.
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Here are some really neat pictures of the recent eruption of Iceland’s
Given the unbelievably large number of Coca-Cola cans sold every day, one artist has a
As I grow older, I’m amazed to see the creation of technologies that I once read about in science fiction books. The Japanese government is spending $22 billion on a project to put a large solar panel array in orbit that will generate energy and beam it down to the Earth.
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“It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.”
