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"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> George Conklin wrote:
> > "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> drydem wrote:
> >>> On Apr 26, 6:32 am, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> drydem wrote:
> >>>>> I've seen hydrogen gas created by electrolysis at the last solar
> >>>>> decathlon. A large solar array was used to create hydrogen
> >>>>> from water via electrolysis and it was store in a hydrogen
> >>>>> fuel cell storage facility (which acted like a battery for the
> >>>>> hydrogen
> >>>>> powered electric generators) .
> >>>> On a more massive scale, one study showed that if 100 square miles of
> >>>> Arizona desert could be covered in present day solar cells it could
> >>>> easily power the entire country. I wonder if the $400 billion or so
> >>>> spent in Iraq would have paid for the mass production of that many
> > solar
> >>>> cells???
> >>>
> >>> Solar cells can't store power and don't provide power at night.
> >>> So they are not by themselves an alternate power
> >>> solution since they can't provide power on demand.
> >> Please don't give me ammo to give you the "Duh" award.
> >> That is why there are battery banks and Ultra-caps.
> >>> Unfortunately, electric battery technology is not at a
> >>> point where they provide an adequate storage capacity
> >>> for our on demand electric utility power
> >
> > If batteries were as good as the above poster thinks, we would all
have
> > electric cars.
> >
> >
> Read up on "Ultra caps". They have virtually no degradation with
> charge/discharge cycles and rival the best batteries in energy storage.
> We don't all have electric cars because everyone seems to want a few
> hundred horsepower under their right foot. As for power grid use this
> type of cap will stay charged for months due to it's new technology.
> Bill (no BS this time) Baka
Drivel.
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> George Conklin wrote:
> > "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> drydem wrote:
> >>> On Apr 26, 6:32 am, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> drydem wrote:
> >>>>> I've seen hydrogen gas created by electrolysis at the last solar
> >>>>> decathlon. A large solar array was used to create hydrogen
> >>>>> from water via electrolysis and it was store in a hydrogen
> >>>>> fuel cell storage facility (which acted like a battery for the
> >>>>> hydrogen
> >>>>> powered electric generators) .
> >>>> On a more massive scale, one study showed that if 100 square miles of
> >>>> Arizona desert could be covered in present day solar cells it could
> >>>> easily power the entire country. I wonder if the $400 billion or so
> >>>> spent in Iraq would have paid for the mass production of that many
> > solar
> >>>> cells???
> >>>
> >>> Solar cells can't store power and don't provide power at night.
> >>> So they are not by themselves an alternate power
> >>> solution since they can't provide power on demand.
> >> Please don't give me ammo to give you the "Duh" award.
> >> That is why there are battery banks and Ultra-caps.
> >>> Unfortunately, electric battery technology is not at a
> >>> point where they provide an adequate storage capacity
> >>> for our on demand electric utility power
> >
> > If batteries were as good as the above poster thinks, we would all
have
> > electric cars.
> >
> >
> Read up on "Ultra caps". They have virtually no degradation with
> charge/discharge cycles and rival the best batteries in energy storage.
> We don't all have electric cars because everyone seems to want a few
> hundred horsepower under their right foot. As for power grid use this
> type of cap will stay charged for months due to it's new technology.
> Bill (no BS this time) Baka
Drivel.