Comments on: Is wind power reliable? – An authoritative article from David Millborrow who is technically experienced and numerate, unlike many other commentators

By: Charles Purkess

Charles Purkess — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:52:25 +0000

It is a question of how to utilise fully the electricity generated by an intermittent and unpredictable supply…… generating hydrogen via water electrolysis is a very good way of storing energy for long periods of time…. it is a fuel that can be used as and when required, and allows the power industry the opportunity to make a clean transport fuel with surplus electricity at off peak times.

See what Quentin Willson thinks, at the recent launch of ITM Power’s Hydrogen On Site Trial (HOST)….

http://www.youtube.com/user/ITMPowerPlc#p/a/u/0/joviBoPHuGM

A year long trial with 21 commercial logisitics companies representing 7 sectors…. making a fuel where it is needed, at the point of use, so eliminating the carbon footprint of delivered fuel, the fuel production (if renewable energy used) and the carbon emissions of vehicles.

By: jonathan davies

jonathan davies — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:39:52 +0000

i have not found the information im looking for so im going to find another site bye.

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:43:54 +0000

I hope you do not mind but I have tried to post (not sure if I have been successful) the attached on the Claverton web site.

It is a commentary on your article “Is wind reliable”

Please feel free to rubbish what I say

Regards

Denis Stephens
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Dennis –

I’ve loaded this article into the file area ( I wish others would learn how to do this and help me out by the way)

http://www.claverton-energy.com/download/319/

(You can look at all the wind files by going to LIBRARY / DOWNLOADING FILES and clicking on wind)

I’ve then put the link as a comkment on the main article by David M

Best

Admin

By: admin

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:14:37 +0000

Tend to agree with you.
Pumped storage is pretty useless though, as it is very expensive and Dinorwig can only deliver about 2 GW for about 4 hours or so no good at all for long term storage, or long term excess.

Quite agree electrolysis to hydrogen is one option, but hydrogen is a quite useless vehicle fuel due to the inability to get enough of the stuff into a vehicle.
http://www.claverton-energy.com/download/167/

http://www.claverton-energy.com/download/159/

Much better to use ammonia, which is not, as ill informed people suppose, any more dangerous to transport than petrol, and can be readily used in existing engines, and you can get enough of the stuff into vehicles.

Batteries are of course another option and twice as efficient as either hudrogen or ammonia, but don’t yet exist with sufficient range or cheapness, and have huge environmental impacts – like where are you going to get all the lithium from?

Much better to go to electric trains, and electricity trams which can use the stuff directly, and travel at 70 mph (in 1935) with overhead pole pick up.

Have you got any articles we can publish?