[Gasification] Electric power storage solutions -- the Plante Battery

[Harmon Seaver]

   Yeah, but you can have on-demand electric so easy. As long as you've
got some sort of ready to burn fuel, like methane, ethanol, biodiesel,
you can have a generator that starts up whenever you flick on a light
switch or whatever. Lots of generators do that, I've got one old Kohler
(4 cyl water cooled, but not many CC's, only 3500 KW) that does that.
Had an even smaller 750watt Kohler air-cooled with the on-demand switch
but it got ripped off.
   So you can have convenient electric w/o batteries, but I think a
combination of that works out better. Solar or wind or both with a
battery bank, then the generator for charging when needed and for
running welders, etc.
   Some of the remote resorts up in N. MN have generators running 24/7
on propane to keep their big freezers going. Or used to anyway -- I have
to wonder if they still can afford to do that.

Jeff Davis wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> "Recycling old batteries to new is a well developed technology -- but to
>> make a modern high power (discharge) battery is quite complicated -- for
>> many reasons we will not go into now.
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> Dear Peter and All,
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> If we subtract electric from our equation life gets a LOT simpler/easyer.
> After all biomass is already in the form of a battery.
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> Line shafts, IcyBalls, town-gas etc.
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> Of course very small batteries for laptops, cell phones etc. But IF the
> structure for the high tech stuff falls then we will not need even the
> small bateries.
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> Easyer to subtract than add,
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Harmon Seaver