Re: Politicians and energy policy

On Tue, 27 May 2008 06:17:17 -0700 (PDT), in sci.electronics.design
MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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We need a way to store power. A hot water tank is fairly good but not
great. If more people drove electric cars, charging the batteries in
the cars would be a good way to store the energy. Batteries are a
good way to store energy when you look at them from one cycle to the
next. They are bad from the point of vies of their high cost.



--
Keith
This is one way to store it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_power_station


martin
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