Clean Power Solutions - battery storage - the future?

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roadrunner13

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• Nov 27, 2015

• #1

Just been sent this.

What do people think? @renewablejohn @woodworm it would be ideal for grain drying at night if you have PV already?

 

woodworm

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Location

Thetford Norfolk

• Nov 27, 2015

• #2

These systems are great for situations where you need power at night and produce more than you need during the day but I wouldn't think grain drying would be top of my list as its only really a summer thing in most situations. I can see the sense in one of these but not really for that application.
I think smaller versions will become common in private housing where house owners are currently not gaining from their pv panels when its dark and they still have to pay for grid power.
I would think its similar to a much larger version of the Tesla storage system, although I have heard indifferent reports about the longevity of that system.

If you feel it would work for you, go and have a look, you've nothing to lose from doing so

 

Daniel

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Location

Mildenhall, Suffolk

• Nov 28, 2015

• #3

Video here:

The chap in the video doesn't blink, and gives almost no detail on how it actually works, I'll be letting others invest their cash first....

 

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renewablejohn

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lancs

• Nov 28, 2015

• #4

Ignore the hype battery storage for off gridders has been around for over a decade and now every man and his dog is jumping onto this storage bubble. Its not rocket science so long as you use a reputable company which are difficult to find. The only one I would recommend is Victron who have actually developed the market place over the last decade.

http://www.victronenergy.com/markets/self-consumption-and-home-energy-storage/knubix

Like anything to do with batteries they have a finite number of cycles and eventually need to be replaced. At a national grid scale there is far better and cheaper solutions then using batteries.

 

rob1

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Location

wiltshire

• Nov 29, 2015

• #5

Know a chap who has been to the USA to see a new "liquid" battery that can be pumped into cars charged and then pumped out again to be recharged meant to be the answer to long journeys and it can be charged up on renewable energy

 

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GreenerGrass

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Location

Wilts

• Nov 29, 2015

• #6

Sounds great @rob1 ! Would love to know more info, controversial, but I wish oil prices were higher we would see so much more innovation on efficiency and alternatives.

 

rob1

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Location

wiltshire

• Nov 29, 2015

• #7

Dont know anymore he said the place was top secret out in the desert somewhere but was huge, was developed to store electric from solar panels but then realised that it could be used for cars

 

Pheasant Surprise

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Location

Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Nov 29, 2015

• #8

rob1 said:

Dont know anymore he said the place was top secret out in the desert somewhere but was huge, was developed to store electric from solar panels but then realised that it could be used for cars

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Top secret...desert. Maybe like "liquid" molten salt.

http://www.solarreserve.com/en/global-projects/csp/crescent-dunes

 

rob1

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Location

wiltshire

• Nov 29, 2015

• #9

Pheasant Surprise said:

Top secret...desert. Maybe like "liquid" molten salt.

http://www.solarreserve.com/en/global-projects/csp/crescent-dunes

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Might be that, not sure was a year or so ago so cant remember the details, if it worked it would solve a lot of problems

 

Pheasant Surprise

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Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Nov 29, 2015

• #10

Nothing beyond the realms of possibility. That Crescent Dunes project look amazing though in its own right. No deserts here, but plenty of other warm places in the world that technology could be put to good use.

 

kneedeep

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S W Lancashire

• Jan 8, 2016

• #11

roadrunner13 said:

Just been sent this.

What do people think? @renewablejohn @woodworm it would be ideal for grain drying at night if you have PV already?
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Can't read the print too well

But his phone number puts him within 2 miles of here.

There's been a few 'green' companies appeared here in the last decade.....
None left,
There's a windmill installed 1/2 mile away, as good as on the pavement, it got going one windy night, they had to shut the road. Been tethered down ever since.
He was an 'expert' in renewables.

Just sayin.

 

kneedeep

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Location

S W Lancashire

• Jan 8, 2016

• #12

Just Googled him.

Looking at his LinkedIn profile...

He's an experts' expert,
Lectures on cruise ships dont y know.

Expert in the meeja an all.
Bowt reet for Edge Hill.