17 Aug
2003
17 Aug
'03
1:55 p.m.
Use hydrogen. One solar panel (which will last forever unless you drop something on it) can split H2O into H and O. Store the H for windless days or at night. Feed this to a turbine for electricity and recover heat for hot water, store it in a heat sink, ect. Or feed the H into a fuel cell &
What kind of land area of solar panels do you plan to produce enough H for producing a gigawatt 24/7? Then multiply that by 60. You probably have to produce H equivivalent of 180GW to accommodate for nights and cloudier days, even if you would be somewhere where it usually shines. If you want to add windmills to the equation, do the land area calculation taking into account turbulence effects which mandate your mill spacing. Pete