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Liquid air 'offers energy storage hope'

BBC News -- Turning air into liquid may offer a solution to one of the great challenges in engineering - how to store energy.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers says liquid air can compete with batteries and hydrogen to store excess energy generated from renewables.

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time will tell. It just might work.
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I'm not so sure that liquid air can compete with other sources. Want to see more info on it.
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I'm not so sure that liquid air can compete with other sources. Want to see more info on it.
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Sounds good, but will it cost effective.
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hope, hope again...

go vote, if you want to sit jobless and hope and hope and hope...
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Has potential.
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I agree with ambudriver!
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As indicated by this article, this type of storage is best applied to industrial complexes and could serve very effectively in reducing operational energy costs.
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Time will tell how good it really is.
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Quick - need to add a pic of President Skroob from "Spaceballs" with a can of Perri-Air.

http://alloveralbany.com/images/spaceballs_perri-air.jpg

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[Edited by: RoLleRKoaSTeR at 10/2/2012 10:24:18 AM EST]
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Make it a reality and then come back and announce it. Or is it just another dream?
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Not very efficient - like ethanol more energy goes in than comes out.

Liquid nitrogen (the air is over 80% nitrogen) when poured out of a container just bubbles, not a lot of vapor pressure. Steam turbines need 500 pounds of pressure to inefficiently generate electricity. Pressures like 3000 pounds are efficient.

This is a science project with poor returns to try and justify intermittent wind power.
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Lot of hot air in Barry's camp, convert it to something useful
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Air to liquid is called condensation, or rain. Someone stole the idea from mother nature.
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we will fight for air pretty soon, lol
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Nothing in air is ready to go
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Ok.
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We shall see how this technology plays out.
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time will tell
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Is it cost effective?
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Sound good if it works!!!
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Plenty of it
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I am waiting.
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"The process, part-funded by the government ..."

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If it had been funded by this administration it would have gone bankrupt already.
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How much energy will it take to liquify the air? Sounds as unrealistic as cold fusion...
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hope it works.
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Kind-of like the air-car that tata motors was making.
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New ideas every month but in the end most don't work out.
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show me
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Less talk and

More action, by putting alternative ideas into production!
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Interesting!!!
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Let's see it happen.
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That might be a viable solution in the future.
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Cool, known use it!
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Nice theory, now let's see it work.
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Far out.
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storage
good luck
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