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Still needs mooring? What i want to see are swimming hydrolyzer/hydrogen transport units that sail the oceans under wind power, driving a hydrogenerator turbine
by usrusr 3y ago
Still needs mooring? What i want to see are swimming hydrolyzer/hydrogen transport units that sail the oceans under wind power, driving a hydrogenerator turbine as they go that powers hydrolyzer and compressor. They'd go wherever weather models predict favorable conditions, cruise up and down those waters on a net stationary beam reach course until the storage is filled. Might want to leave some capacity for the return trip harvest. Then they return home, or to whatever port has the best offersvfor selling hydrogen and buying maintenance.
- jonnycomputer 3y agoWould be moored more or less the same way deep-sea oils rigs are. The main difficulties, as I understand it, is the unique stresses and forces of the turbine on platform stability. I can see why an image of these moving back and forth is appealing, it will almost certainly make more sense to have dedicated craft responsible for it (even if they were not fixed to the ground). The very sorts of stability you need would work against it being an efficient transport.
- usrusr 3y agoThat's why it would be so nice to just forego the static stability you need for an air turbine: a sailboat gets all the stability to push its sail into the wind from its movement. It's like the lift of an airplane that is completely gone without movement. So you put up sails (or a powerful traction kite), get to speed so the keel provides the lateral lift you need to not just drift downwind and engage the hydrogenerator to skim off some off the energy.