Posted by admin | Posted in Green Energy | Posted on 01-03-2010
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Can Wind Energy Be Stored?
I’m doing a project where I have to design a “Green” Cruise Ship. I thought it would be cool if my ship ran off of wind energy. I want to create a port where there is a wind farm that my ship would visit every couple weeks….so is it possible to fuel a Cruise Ship with wind like you would gas? Can you store wind power?
To store the mechanical energy from wind, different solutions are possible:
- chemical storage (battery or generation of fuels such as hydrogen with the electricity)
- storage as a potential energy (e.g. generated electricity and use it to pump water in a higher dam so that it can flow again down through turbines and generate again electricity)
- storage as heat or pressure which can be used to run a turbine afterwards
- storage as mechanical energy (e.g. very fast rotating large steel cyclinder at 100 000 rotations per second… on magnetic bearings)
The Cheap Energy Store (part 2)
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