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To the best of my knowledge that thinking is spot on. A possible component that might be missing (in the thinking and/or in the proposed implementation): the s
by usrusr 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge that thinking is spot on.
A possible component that might be missing (in the thinking and/or in the proposed implementation): the stored heat could also be utilised separately if needed, so if you have an intermittent heat consumer and an intermittent electricity consumer you could consume the heat first, then leave the remaining compression energy (what you could recover without reheating) "forever". Bonus points if you also happen to have a coolant consumer to benefit from the temperature delta caused heat loss or premature heat consumption.
- samstave 5y agoAfter seeing videos of lava pouring into the ocean I have fantasized about a power generation system: Artificial geo-thermal power gen: Dig a deep enough hole but near the ocean, and let ocean water pour into the hole that gets close enough to magma such that the magma creates a steam blast back out a tube with a bunch of turbines to spin.
- usrusr 5y agoHeh, and you'd get a molten salt heat storage unit for free. Because if you condense that steam you have solved desalination as well. CEO Nwabudike Morgan likes this (reference to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri in case you were wondering)