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

[Jeff Davis]

Why do we need electric, why bother??


Jeff


>    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.
>>
>> Dear Peter and All,
>>
>>
>> If we subtract electric from our equation life gets a LOT
>> simpler/easyer.
>> After all biomass is already in the form of a battery.
>>
>> Line shafts, IcyBalls, town-gas etc.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Easyer to subtract than add,
>>
>> Jeff


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA