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I remember reading something a few years ago that this sort of thing was being investigated as a means of using wind power. As we know wind power (like most? a
by cletus 8y ago
I remember reading something a few years ago that this sort of thing was being investigated as a means of using wind power.
As we know wind power (like most? all? renewable sources) have this undesirable property of not being constant. And I mean undesirable in the sense of the base load of an electrical grid.
So the idea is to store excess power. Obviously rechargeable batteries are one way to do this. But another is artificially creating gasoline as a means of energy storage. This could have pretty desirable properties at places where gasoline might otherwise be expensive to ship in and wind power might be in abundance.
Anyway I can't find the paper but at that time with that process it was looking at still over $5/gallon (which in remote places is still totally fine).
So if this new process is real and scalable to an industrial level, that would be great. As much as EVs are a rapidly growing market, I think we're going to be stuck with ICEs for a long time yet.
- discreteevent 8y agoIf there were a lot more electric cars they could act as a buffer to smooth out the variability of renewables.