Plastic Bags Could Store Excess Wind Energy On The Ocean Floor
By Nick April 6, 2008
Broadband technology was polished through a long series of “trial and error” experiments. Scientists are now using the same approach in harnessing the power of wind energy. We always had a problem with excess wind energy and to be more specific, researchers never found a good way to store the surplus of wind energy. Currently, excess wind energy is stored in huge underground tanks. This technique is called Compressed Air Energy Storage and Seamus Garvey, an UK professor at the Nottingham University, thinks that he might have the perfect solution for this matter.
The study of Prof. Garvey began two years ago and he discovered that using a wind turbine, he could compress the air. His idea consists of a structure situated at a depth of 600 meters which will contain plastic bags that will stow about 25 Megajoules of energy per meter cubed.
For the moment there are only two places where you can find CAES, one is in McIntosh, Alabama and the other is in Huntorf, Germany. Prof. Garvey hopes that his idea will be promoted because for the future there many economic advantages.
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