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V2G + Wind - Vehicle to Grid Technology Joins Wind Energy
Here is a complementary idea, one that Denmark is already testing.The main problem with wind energy is that it is unpredictable. This results in times when there is a lot of wind and the whole energy cannot be used and other times and when there is no wind at all. Of course, the excess wind could have been stored but that is very costly.
Enter electric cars.
Electric cars? Yep, the EVs.
It's a brilliant thought. Consider this: All EVs will have batteries that anyway needs to be charged, and these batteries store the energy. Let's say you charge the battery using excess energy from wind farms. And then, when there is no wind and the grid requires some extra electricity, why, all you need is to simply pump in the energy from the extra batteries stored in the cars. Essentially, you turn the cars into moving power storage systems.
Neat idea, isn't it?
More such intelligent ideas are likely to emerge in the alternative energy domain.
How can entrepreneurs benefit from such insights? To me, such ideas prove the interconnectedness of the coming energy industry with a lot many things that are not even connected to the industry. While in this case both the EVs and wind mills happen to be concepts that are directly in the domain of alternative energy, there will be many good ideas that result from the marriage of alternative energy and staid old things. That reminds me - did I tell you about the idea in which a company called AEST generated electricity from heavy duty vehicles? In this case, the energy was obtained when trucks drove over plates embedded into the road. The pressure on the plates initiated a hydraulic pumping system that turned a generator to produce electricity.
posted by Ecacofonix at
8:14 AM
Monday, June 22, 2009
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