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Jonathan Hatton
SOUTH AFRICA

I love the compressed air schemes – calculate the volume and cylinders needed then you can forget it.

H2 – sure – one very inefficient method of ’saving’ power or rather one very efficient method of wasting it. Of course you can have electrolysis – very, very inefficient.

100 kW – very good – supplies my house and one more.

Cool idea but DOA I believe except for special circumstances where a few light bulbs are needed. The economy of scale is super important – this doesn’t have it.

100 kW seems fine for a small village or a Kibuzz. Scaling up is possible by using more than one module. Whether larger scale is more cost effective depends. We will know once there is a commercial version of this.

Hydrogen can be made by electrolysis, using some of the generated power to do this, the resulting hydrogen would be available as a combustible for times when no sun is available.

Compressed air – I do not understand your point. The system works with a gas turbine, that is driven by compressed air. If some of the compressed air is stored instead of driving the turbine, it would be available to generate electricity later, all that’s needed is an air tight and pressure resistant storage container.

@ Francisco: The use of hydrogen may not be such a good idea, hydrogen must be made first, from natural gas, which is inefficient.

@ Sepp: the use of compressed air as energy storage is known, but inefficient without the use of a gas turbine at the exhaust of that compressed air.

Wishing all success to ARORA and Weizmann Institute. Hope this initiative turns out to be commercially successful as well.

I lived on an Israeli kibbutz for many years, and I can tell you that the idea of being self-sufficient and sustainable is held as highly as being able to breathe air. If anybody can work this out to fruition, the Israeli’s will. They aren’t afraid to think out of the box, nor do they allow themselves to get stuck in a quagmire of political left turns, played to the beating of “oil drums.”

A “half acre.” That means that you could build a “power park” almost anywhere, and be free of the grid, and it’s frailties!

Good for them. I hope the world takes note. This tech would benefit everyone on Earth.

This fact – if my view is correct – could also mean that the pressurized air so obtained could also be used in times of no sun or even through the night, if pressurized storage tanks for the air can be provided.

Thanks