7.23.2010

Energy Storage

One of the interesting points I've seen for a while about Peak Oil is that one way to think of the (probably inevitable, even if not imminent) transition away from complete dependence of our economy on fossil fuels to anything except nuclear power will entail a shift in importance from stocks to flows and a need to devise much better energy storage media.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

One word Salts!

Anonymous said...

Link:
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100722/worlds-first-solar-plant-stores-energy-days

Anonymous said...

Mmm, melty.

ml said...

oh yeah. that's why i sold myself as "water purification" and "energy storage" on my job interviews last year =P

Anonymous said...

Yeah, the other people who would be useful are those who study extremophiles and other weird microbes.