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Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores

Posted by kdawson on from the timeshifting-the-wind dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to Nature, a European-funded project has been launched to store electricity created from wind in refrigerated warehouses used to store food. As the production of wind energy is variable every day, it cannot easily be accommodated on the electrical grid. So the 'Night Wind' project wants to store wind energy produced at night in refrigerated warehouses and to release this energy during daytime peak hours. The first tests will be done in the Netherlands this year. And as the cold stores exist already, practically no extra cost should be incurred to store as much as 50,000 megawatt-hours of energy. Here are additional details and a picture illustrating this brilliant idea."

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  1. April yet? by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, time flies. Refrigerating electricity - hmm, wonder how long it will last till it spoils?

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    1. Re:April yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I want to know how we can harness the power created by the vast vacuum between people that grasp sarcasm and you.

    2. Re:April yet? by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 4, Funny

      the power created by the vast vacuum between people that grasp sarcasm and you.

      Note: the technical term for this controversial concept is zero-comphrension-of-the-point energy.

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  2. "night wind" by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the 'Night Wind' project wants to store wind energy produced at night in refrigerated warehouses

    So do they release this "Night Wind" with a "Dutch Oven"?

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  3. Pumped storage hydro is common world wide. by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Funny

    It really does a number on the fish though.

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  4. Re:Holy Frozen Kippers by thc69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    heat is the most useless form of energy.
    Tell that to this guy.
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