March 30, 2013
Free Energy for All!!!!!!!!!
First, an interesting article about some research -- from CBC Technology:Cheaper green energy storage solution invented by Calgary profsNot even wrong. Visiting the Firewater Fuel Corp, you see a website full of hope and promise but absolutely no meat. Nothing substantial. Granted, they are not wanting to give away the farm but at least some published test results and an overall photograph of your lab setup. This reminds me oh-so-much of the Irish company Steorn. (more here and here) In 2004, they were all a-twitter about an over-unity electrical motor they developed. They had a public demonstration but it didn't work. The two websites looked a bit similar with the swooshy logos.
A new discovery by a pair of University of Calgary chemists could make the large-scale use of wind and solar energy more feasible.
Curtis Berlinguette and Simon Trudel have invented an environmentally friendly, highly customizable way to make a key component in a process that stores electricity by turning water into hydrogen fuel � at a price they say is roughly 1,000 times cheaper than current methods for making that component.
They published their method this week online in the journal Science Express and are currently trying to commercialize it through a new spinoff company called Firewater Fuel Corp.
Wind and solar energy are considered clean, renewable sources of electricity, but they have a major drawback � the amount of power they generate at a given time depends on the amount of wind and sun at that moment. That doesn't necessarily correlate with the demand for electricity at a given time, so in order to use wind and solar power efficiently on a large scale, there needs to be a way to store it for later use.
Technically, electricity can already be stored cleanly by converting water into hydrogen and oxygen through a process called electrolysis, using a device called an electrolyzer. The stored chemical energy can be reconverted to electricity by recombining the hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell. It's a process similar to what happens in a battery and can be used in similar applications, including electric vehicles. However, hydrogen and water are cleaner storage materials than those used in batteries and fuel cells tend to be more efficient than batteries in a number of different ways.
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