Comments on: Siemens Figures Out What to Do With Night Wind http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118899 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118899 10 GW is just their off shore wind they are building. They also have 25 GW of solar and 29 GW of regular land based wind… as well as charging at night, it is actually necessary to find a night job for wind as well to fill in the gap.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118898 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118898 Right – It is just counting their off-shore wind, which is not as developed as their on shore capacity

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118897 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118897 Siemens with a billion for yearly R&D is sure to come up with a very large and scalable solution like you suggest

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118896 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:32:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118896 Yep. I don’t know why people seem to think energy storage is so insoluble

]]> By: SirSparks http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118857 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118857 I wonder what they plan for all the oxygen (50% volume of the hydrogen production) the electrolysis will produce? I they piped both then they would have the right mix for fuel cells to directly reconvert them into electricity as needed. In fact why even pipe them? just store them locally until needed.

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118850 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:53:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118850 Sorry it’s off-share capacity of 10GW.

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118849 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118849 According to Wikipedia had 29GW of wind connected in 2011 so I’m not sure what that 10GW by 2020 figure relates to.

]]> By: Captivation http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118839 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:38:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118839 10 GW is only 1000 watts each for 10 million people. So the goal should be to have a small part of the population recharge their electric cars at night. Instead of building unnecessary plants, they should be exploring ways to increase electric car sales.

]]> By: Marcus http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118828 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118828 Vanadium Eedox Batteries & pumped storage are other ways to store excess energy. Another option is to uze the energy to charge people’s electric cars & other electric vehicles for the following day.

]]> By: Luke http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118827 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:53:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118827 Sounds like a good idea! Perhaps they should contact Dr. Sadaway with his Mg-Sb liquid metal batteries and collaborate. I saw another good idea expressed in a comment around here about how you could potentially store compressed air inside the wind turbine tower.

Three good ideas. The Hydrogen from Electrolysis concept is fantastic and if the Hydrogen economy takes off, they could be on to a winner here.

]]> By: M Hurley http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/19/siemens-figures-out-what-to-do-with-night-wind/#comment-118826 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36050#comment-118826 Someone should hook them up with the TED guy with the liquid batteries.

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