Hydrogen: River of Energy
Columbia River hydropower could put Northwest at a forefront of a revolution
By Jack Robertson
The News Tribune"
Monday, July 07, 2008
Hydro/Wind Power Followup
The BPA and the wind community apparently believe that storage of wind and hydro power are too expensive. Please read the following article from the Tacoma News Tribune about hydrogen. Also below is a link to a patented system for converting excess hydro into hydrogen.
Hydrogen: River of Energy
Columbia River hydropower could put Northwest at a forefront of a revolution
By Jack Robertson
The News Tribune"
Hydrogen: River of Energy
Columbia River hydropower could put Northwest at a forefront of a revolution
By Jack Robertson
The News Tribune"
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Wind surge poses a risk to salmon and reveals flaws in BPA's power-regulating system - OregonLive.com
Wind surge poses a risk to salmon and reveals flaws in BPA's power-regulating system - OregonLive.com: "Wind surge poses a risk to salmon and reveals flaws in BPA's power-regulating system
With Columbia Gorge turbines pumping out extra electricity, the agency had to quickly adjust its hydro generation"
This was a story in the Saturday, July 05, 2008 Oregonian Newspaper by Gail Kinsey Hill, a staff writer. The gist of the story was that the greatly increased capacity of the wind turbines along the Columbia Gorge through which the Mighty Columbia River flows came close to causing a big problem on the BPA power generating dams. In order to deal with the surplus of electricity, the dams had to stop generating power and spill water over the dam thus potentially causing a problem with migrating salmon. My question is why the excess capacity of either the windmills or the dams could not be converted to hydrogen and stored for later use. Lacking an infrastructure to deliver hydrogen to other places where it could be used, it could be stored on site and used later to power generators or produce electricity when needed using fuel cells.
As a side note, as the old economy of the river based on aluminum smelting is in decline, a significant part of the BPA output is used by Google in it's semi-secret server farm in The Dalles on the banks of the Columbia. Despite Google's efforts to conserve, lots of power is used to run the servers and to cool the plant. Read about this in this Willamette Week article.
A blog about generating hydrogen with excess capacity can be reached by clicking here. Can anyone explain to my why this will not work?
With Columbia Gorge turbines pumping out extra electricity, the agency had to quickly adjust its hydro generation"
This was a story in the Saturday, July 05, 2008 Oregonian Newspaper by Gail Kinsey Hill, a staff writer. The gist of the story was that the greatly increased capacity of the wind turbines along the Columbia Gorge through which the Mighty Columbia River flows came close to causing a big problem on the BPA power generating dams. In order to deal with the surplus of electricity, the dams had to stop generating power and spill water over the dam thus potentially causing a problem with migrating salmon. My question is why the excess capacity of either the windmills or the dams could not be converted to hydrogen and stored for later use. Lacking an infrastructure to deliver hydrogen to other places where it could be used, it could be stored on site and used later to power generators or produce electricity when needed using fuel cells.
As a side note, as the old economy of the river based on aluminum smelting is in decline, a significant part of the BPA output is used by Google in it's semi-secret server farm in The Dalles on the banks of the Columbia. Despite Google's efforts to conserve, lots of power is used to run the servers and to cool the plant. Read about this in this Willamette Week article.
A blog about generating hydrogen with excess capacity can be reached by clicking here. Can anyone explain to my why this will not work?
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness
Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness
How could you not find this interesting. A worm with only 300 or so neurons in its brain finding food doing intricate calculations. I just love it! I can't do calculus. I vaguely recall that funny "S" symbol though!
How could you not find this interesting. A worm with only 300 or so neurons in its brain finding food doing intricate calculations. I just love it! I can't do calculus. I vaguely recall that funny "S" symbol though!
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