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I wondered if you can use hydrogen instead. Use solar/wind to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen. Compress it to liquefy it. Store this in some temporary sto
by blackrock 6y ago
I wondered if you can use hydrogen instead.
Use solar/wind to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen. Compress it to liquefy it. Store this in some temporary storage tanks.
Then when you want to make electricity, pipe the hydrogen and oxygen into a fuel cell. Then electricity and pure drinking water comes out.
Then you can bottle the pure drinking water and sell it locally for an additional profit.
I haven’t analyzed the cost for all the technology and infrastructure. But this idea seems mechanically simpler than the gravity brick idea. Additionally, you can transport the LH and LOX, to other areas if necessary.
- imtringued 6y agoHydrogen works despite the inefficiency because there is an existing gas infrastructure ready to be converted. If we had to build everything from scratch we would be desperate for other solutions.