Until today, you could not transport renewable energy...
Renewable energy has two big problems:
- It's now the lowest-cost energy in history, but it's not always at the right time.
- It's now the lowest-cost energy in history, but it's not always in the right place.
Heliogen has a solution to both of these problems. Heliogen's new invention of a Sunlight Refinery(tm) enables all-day operation (not just when the sun is shining) and then uses the energy generated to split water cost-effectively to make 100% green Hydrogen. Once you have Hydrogen, you can transport that energy to where it's needed, even across continents.
My presentation about this new technology from the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Summit last week is here:
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11moBill, thanks for sharing!
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3yIt's a fascinating technology but there are many places lacking water and you plan to take the hydrogen out of the H2O, good clean power but the cost of the water makes this expensive. In NSW the government sold the water in a number of rivers to big companies and in the process destroyed many small farmers and farms raising animals. These are the very backbone of the food chain and they are being sacrificed daily to big business that does nothing for the local economy or the planet
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3yWe have significant potable water problems, even in the US. The true market cost of water is also significantly higher than retail price (esp if you're pumping significant amounts out to a desert solar station). How does that play into "cost-effective?" Wouldn't it make more practical sense to feed the solar energy into the grid and then float a "refinery" on some spar buoys so you can split salt water at the source? Or better yet, float the entire refinery and solar array so you get the benefits of the electrolysis + reducing ocean temps (if the array is large enough) + add a desalination station / pipeline to use any spare energy to pipe back potable water. In The Office lingo, win/win/win.
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3yBill, during A360 last week, it was fantastic to hear about all the work you're doing in the energy sector. Heliogen and Energy Vault are game changers !