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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 21:59:07 +1100
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On 1/12/2024 4:32 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:16:39 +0000, Clive Arthur
> <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/11/2024 15:59, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:51:52 +0000, Clive Arthur
>>> <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 24/11/2024 11:40, Martin Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snipped>
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if there's any mileage in this technique...
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_carbon_dioxide_energy_storage
>>>
>>> Propane would be even better. After the pressure recovery, if you
>>> still need power, you could burn it.
>>
>> Absolutely.  And use the energy to liquefy the CO2 thus produced!
> 
> If you want a power plant that never exports power, that's a great
> idea. Most people want to keep their lights on.

You can't actually liquefy CO2, unless you compress it a lot.

But that doesn't use up all that much energy compared with what you can 
get from burning propane to make the CO2.

>> Do you stand on street corners wearing a MAGA hat and with a sandwich
>> board proclaiming 'The End of the World is Not Nigh'?  You do seem to
>> take every opportunity to announce your irrational belief that
>> anthropogenic climate change is a lie.
> 
> Increased CO2 and a warmer climate, whatever the causes, are wonderful
> for life on Earth, including human life.

If you believe the climate change denial propaganda churned out by the 
fossil carbon extraction industry. You've got to be a gullible idiot to 
fall for it, but somebody who believes that Donald Trump has "common 
sense" will believe pretty much anything.

> How strange you are. Do you ever successfully design electronics?

He wouldn't be working at CERN if he didn't. It's an elite group.

You wouldn't get a look in.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney