Energy Storage

[louise]

For when the winds don't blow?

As the video here explains, one practical, and easy to understand, way to store excess electrical energy is the simple flywheel. High tech mag-lev technology makes it easier to cut friction and drag which kill efficiency, and new superstrong materials like carbon fiber increase the strength and durability, but basically, what you have is a spinning wheel. (think about the playground merry go round that keeps spinning long after you’ve stopped pushing and jumped on..)

But flywheels are just one piece of a huge mosaic of energy storage devices… (more at climatecrocks.com/2011/03/08/energy-storage-not-such-a-new-idea/ )

[principled]

Or we could feed the curent into a super conductor coil...once we get them to operate thus at room temperature!
But, where exactly is the energy coming from to do the above or to spin the flywheels?
First we need an excess of enrgy output over consumption. To guarantee this we need even more wind turbines so that there is guaranteed a excess! Who's going to pay?

Oh dear, I feel yet another tax scam coming on.
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[rsmith7]

Yep, no co2 released in the building of the massive plant required to store a meaningful amount of energy.
You need to start thinking in GWhrs, louise....and try to imagine how many of these silly devices would be required....and how much of that horrible pollutant, co2, would be emitted in their production.
Nowt as blind as a zealot.

[rsmith7]

The Chinese know where the energy is stored....
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/8368794/Chinas-uranium-hunt-pushes-Kalahari-Minerals-shares-up-6pc-on-counterbid-speculation.html

[jonjel]

There was a pilot scheme in Scotland years ago where they pumped water up from one loch to a higher one at night when there was an abundance of unused energy then used that same water to generate power during the day.

Simple cheap and effective.

[rsmith7]

Pumped storage you're referring to is a standard method of balancing the grid. Hydro electric dams spend much of their time pumping uphill.

[marchesarosa]

Perhaps Louise can explain the "meaning" of her OP? I am mystified by it. Is this type of "energy storage" deemed a joke (a "crock" in warmist ideology) or a viable technology? I'm sure Louise can explain it to us non-technologists.