#battery alternatives

[forgottenthreads]

Environmental idea

One of the big issues for the grid is that it's really hard to spin up extra generation on the quick and really inefficient too, big powerplants running cold wastes a huge amount of energy while they heat up and spin up. We're adding a bunch of renewable sources to the grid which is great but it's also making meeting demands really hard cause we double the number of times a classic power station cycles on and off.

One of the biggest demands on the grid is AC. It's as much as 10% of the energy demand, and while it is fairly efficient it's also for many time sensitive. I know Tech Connections has suggested AC as a battery, turn on the AC when there's low demand or high supply and over cool so it's needed less when there's high demand or low supply. But I think we can take it a couple of steps forward after all the AC is dumping the unwanted heat into the atmosphere doing no work with it, if we can supply cooling and use the heat that'd ultimately be more efficient.

So we have a bunch of high pressure pipes that are soon going to be obsolete I suggest repurposing them to carry compressed (or liquified) air. We generate the compressed air by keeping nuclear power stations running even when they're "not needed" and to meet peak demands rather than spinning up coal we turn off the compression.

The compression (or liquifaction) of air produces waste heat which can be used to preheat the water for the reactors or something like utility hot water, and the compressed air when it decompresses would cool the environment it's decompressed into.

There would be the side effects that the compressed air could improve air quality wherever it is released, the air can be fractionated to remove CO2 if it's liquified even without separation of all the other useful fractions like neon, argon, helium, etc... even if these are relatively small fractions doing this at scale could generate significant quantities anyway. Regardless of composition the air may be contaminant free, with no dust or live viruses/bacteria due to filtering or the compression process, and the compressed air will be less able to hold moisture so would provide air conditioning to a degree.

Once stored compressed air as a battery is near lossless, hot salt batteries shed heat over time even if not being discharged, chemical batteries self discharge over time, while 1kg of compressed air in a tank will remain 1kg of compressed air in a tank almost indefinitely providing the tank is well designed and leak free.

And there are many ways to used compressed air other than cooling, there are many tools that are already designed for use with compressed air. From workshop tools like pneumatic saws, drills, files and so on to pressure washers or medical equipment there are many uses for compressed air as a power source separate from its use as AC.

And I would assume that running a few larger processes could be made considerably more efficient than millions of smaller ones. A bigger system may be able to leverage multiple phase change stages in ways that are more effective than a single refrigerant loop, industrial machinery may be designed for higher pressure capacity, higher heat extraction levels, colder cold side than is necessary or safe for a residential or commercial environment.

I believe it could be a very valuable and worth while endeavour however I do appreciate I do not know all the nuances and I am well aware that effectively bottling atmosphere in one location and releasing it at another consistently could make the urban microclimate problem worse. Not only are urban environments more likely to hold onto heat this have a side effect of driving up atmospheric pressure in those same environments making them less likely to have cloud cover or rain while the compression locations my lower air pressure and lead to their own microclimates and may result in significant environmental impacts like permanent winds between cities and the compression stations.

I want to see some real studies into the feasibelity and long term effects of this plan even if it's a bad idea I believe it's worth exploring

[puddlesl1me]

I'm so good at school, I get A's in all of my classes!

Even the harder ones, like romantic interest, sexuality, and gender!

[possible-streetwear]

[hartxstarr-art]

au where everything is the same but its not actually its completely different honestly woah

[tasteofgasoline]

Wildly underrated Seattle band Love Battery

1992

[eemoo1o-animoo]

Black Butler Modern AU, but it’s just Sebastian and the fire alarm having a never ending feud.

[au-yuukiemcee]

Vanessa Coral: Secret Drawer

~Azul gets curious about a special drawer that Vanessa keeps locked up. Unable to resist he call Idia for assistance in cracking it open.

WARNING: Some PG-13 rated shenanigans are going down.

[phoenixcatch7]

Man I am just SO CONFUSED. About the time line of this game.

No one is telling me how long links been gone! Or how long the botw-totk timeskip was! They all just started selling my stuff again lol. I'm going to have to get everything redyed!

Me: hey random stranger! Lore dump? You look like a lore dumper.

Kindly npc: why hullo there, link ^^! My, I haven't seen you in a while since the calamity ended! I was so worried when they said you and the princess had gone missing! But it's good to see you're well.

Me: aw, thanks. How long has it actually been tho.

Kindly npc: ^u^

[thecreativemillennial]

The late Wayne Static and Chester Bennington back in 2004

[xxplumrav3nxx]

NO WAY I JUST FOUND MY OLD TAMAGOTCHI

[licorishh]

Hey as a super introverted but not shy person I'd just like to say the jokes about extroverts "adopting" introverts to "get them out of their shell" are actually completely unfunny and it just goes to show how little respect a lot of y'all have for the fact that we genuinely don't want excessive social interaction and that y'all are forcing us to do something that brings us extreme physical and mental discomfort because you perceive our introversion as a failing rather than as purely a difference in personality.

We don't need your "help" to socialize. We're not children. We're simply not interested in spending every waking second of our lives talking to people and being talked at in return.

[cappurrccino]

you'd think eventually I would run out of new car problems to have, but there is, unfortunately, always some new way a car can try to break

[crowcryptid]

against all better judgement i am more active on tw*tter now because despite the poison, at least the xitter app does not try to assassinate me via phone battery bomb for daring to not have the lastest and greatest Smasnug6000 or iclone 16

[appleonjust-ice]

someone tagged the next times led display at the bus stop youve GOT to be kidding me

[alvinmichaelmurphyseville]

“This new social battery I have aquired…”

“Does it come with instructions?”

“I used to be 100% extrovert. I don’t know what to do with these introvert tendencies!”

[weaselle]

wanted to take my addition and make my own post so i could keep talking about it

You know the ancient primordial forests and seas? well they were full of so much Life that it created huge pockets of Death, and if you trap those pockets of death under the weight of the ocean or earth and heat it with the fires at the center of the planet you can transform all that dead life into a sort of eldritch black sludge

Then you simply take your eldritch death sludge, and ceremoniously burn it to create power. Of course doing so does choke the life out of the world and could possibly end human existence, but what do you expect when you use eldritch death sludge to create power?

There IS a movement to instead use the bones of old stars that have died violent deaths in huge explosions. These star bones leak an energy that can melt any life that gets too close (but like melt it from the inside kinda) and it can sort of infect anything it touches to make that thing also leak energy that melts living beings. Anyway, you can use that life-melting energy from the deadly star bones to boil water. So that's where we get most of our power that isn't made from ceremoniously burning eldritch death sludge.

i think that's actually the part that fucks me up the most is that in both cases, what we are using it for is to boil water. Like. Your entire nation, all the electricity in your home, the street lights, all of it, is run off of a few really giant steam engines.

Literally. The cyberdistopian future is real and it is simultaneously steampunk. fml

we use the eldritch death sludge and the life-melting star energy to boil water. through a steam turbine. For all our power needs.

Like. C'mon. Space programs and gene therapy and microchips in brains that let a person use a computer with just their mind (yes that actually exists, primarily to allow paralyzed people to do things) ALL THAT and we can't find another way to boil water so we don't fuck the planet into unlivable conditions? Really? Brightest minds on the planet, can split an atom and destroy the world, but we can't cook up a better way to BOIL. WATER. are you sure?

it just. Kinda feels like we're getting punked, tbh