I wonder how this will be applied

[Old Rocks]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid. At a level that actually exceeds present energy storage by most batteries.

MSN

 

[1srelluc]

I think the Mosquito Laser has more real world applications that that.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid. At a level that actually exceeds present energy storage by most batteries.

MSN

It'll be stupid expensive and it still won't make wind and solar economically feasible.

 

[White 6]

It'll be stupid expensive and it still won't make wind and solar economically feasible.

Tell it to Texas and see if they scrap theirs.
How much money was made in Texas last year off of wind and solar energy?
In Texas, existing and expected utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage projects are projected to generate over $20 billion in total tax revenue and pay landowners approximately $29.5 billion over the projects' lifetimes. Additionally, renewable energy projects are estimated to have saved Texans about $20 million per day in energy costs.
poweralliance.org seia.org

 

[HikerGuy83]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid. At a level that actually exceeds present energy storage by most batteries.

MSN

More violations of the laws of thermodynamics.

Call us when the first plant gets built.

 

[fncceo]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid.

 

[egp320i]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid. At a level that actually exceeds present energy storage by most batteries.

MSN

I believe that is called the ocean

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Tell it to Texas and see if they scrap theirs.
How much money was made in Texas last year off of wind and solar energy?
In Texas, existing and expected utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage projects are projected to generate over $20 billion in total tax revenue and pay landowners approximately $29.5 billion over the projects' lifetimes. Additionally, renewable energy projects are estimated to have saved Texans about $20 million per day in energy costs.
poweralliance.org seia.org

Free federal handouts get lots of uneconomical things built.

 

[toobfreak]

Storing the sunlight's energy in a liquid. At a level that actually exceeds present energy storage by most batteries.

Well, if it succeeds in an energy density nearly twice that of a lithium battery, that is very promising. What I'm confused about is whether this stuff bypasses the need for solar panels or merely replaces the battery.

It sounds like the stuff just soaks up heat from being out in the sun, and once "charged up," you merely release its stored heat energy and convert that to electricity.

 

[White 6]

Free federal handouts get lots of uneconomical things built.

Yes, but they have had them up and running, producing more that anybody else in the country, while they operate off the National Power Grid, for years and making a ton of money, as private suppliers. It is really really hard to convince rich Texans and highly profitable private power supplier, making their money of the power they produce, to quit making money. What are you going to do, kick them off the national power grid? No. They aren't on it. Between wind and over 23% of state Power Generation and Solar producing over 13, not much you are going to be able to do about, as Texans are unlikely to simply turn out the lights, and it was Red state policies embraced by the Red state government, and the rich big money Texans that embraced it and made it work to the point they lead the country in production and on net profits. And, this, in a big Oil State. You will flat play hell getting it out of Texas.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes, but they have had them up and running, producing more that anybody else in the country, while they operate off the National Power Grid, for years and making a ton of money, as private suppliers. It is really really hard to convince rich Texans and highly profitable private power supplier, making their money of the power they produce, to quit making money. What are you going to do, kick them off the national power grid? No. They aren't on it. Between wind and over 23% of state Power Generation and Solar producing over 13, not much you are going to be able to do about, as Texans are unlikely to simply turn out the lights, and it was Red state policies embraced by the Red state government, and the rich big money Texans that embraced it and made it work to the point they lead the country in production and on net profits. And, this, in a big Oil State. You will flat play hell getting it out of Texas.

Yeah, handing out free money can be profitable for people who receive it.

 

[White 6]

Yeah, handing out free money can be profitable for people who receive it.

Those things in Texas have most likely paid back all government loans, as well as paying their own upkeep/maintenance and generating Billion$ of dollar$ in profits as well as lease payments to landowner and county tax coffers. I assure you, you ain't getting rid of it. You will just have to live with the efficiency or their operation, as it is self sustaining and economically efficient way to produce power down there, without the pollution of a traditional power plant.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Those things in Texas have most likely paid back all government loans, as well as paying their own upkeep/maintenance and generating Billion$ of dollar$ in profits as well as lease payments to landowner and county tax coffers. I assure you, you ain't getting rid of it. You will just have to live with the efficiency or their operation, as it is self sustaining and economically efficient way to produce power down there, without the pollution of a traditional power plant.

I don't want to get rid of it.
I want tax dollars to stop being wasted on it.
I want state and federal mandates ended.
See how it does when it has to compete.
Some will work, some won't.