130: It’s a gas, gas, gas - CO2 Batteries

[@WriteInAaronBushnell]

All of these thermal energy storage interest me because they compliment another clean energy system; geo thermal district heating/cooling systems. These district systems could act as a heat sink to dump excess thermal energy on during charging and pull heat from while discharging; similar to how a home with rooftop PV (without batteries) uses the power grid

[@sumoneskid]

Love the podcast. I appreciate the deeper dive into the subject. You toyed with the idea of photovoltaics on the bladder. Since the system is designed to recoup thermal energy as well, I'm curious if a black membrane could capture some of the sun's rays as thermal energy, instead of electricity from photovoltaics. Or if a semitransparent material could create a greenhouse effect in the balder. The sun's rays could naturally increase the heat and pressure of the CO2. Almost certainly less efficient as a solar panel, but maybe a cheep way to squeeze a few percentage points out of the system's efficiency.

[@suchdevelopments]

Thanks!

[@jean-pierredevent970]

Strategically, this doesn't depend on any import, that seems also an interesting point.

[@recless8667]

Could you put this dome inside one of the giant desalination domes?

[@leonnelen151]

Even stronger. The dome doesn't need to put inside a giant desalination dome. You can use the desalination dome as a dome.

[@NaumRusomarov]

Hi Matt, have you done a video on NetPower's CCS tech? It's a new-ish type of gas plant that uses supercritical co2 as the working fluid. I think their goal is to create a new type of gas powered plant that is built around CCS from the start. Might be interesting.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

The problem would seem to be.... "First take gas....." (Where from?)

[@jgajewicz]

Isn't that a big bomb? I mean we can handle explosive things but... Compared to pump-storage hydro it must be a bomb :)

[@bradhaaf4749]

If the Boring Company made a tunnel from Hoover Dam to Los Angeles and you compressed air at the Hoover Dam side of things and generated electricity at the LA side of things not only do you have battery storage but you have a free transmission line with zero loss... If you extracted the oxygen and nitrogen you also have CO2 sequestration.. to be honest I'm kind of disappointed you could do five things at the same time in one project and yet Engineers seem to focus on one thing at a time.

[@troyhunter5319]

Many thanks to both of you. Big fan Matt! You chaps keep up the "wokeness" despite the troglodytes among us!

[@miless2111sutube]

Matt, for goodness sake wear a lighter T-shirt or have a light background; at the moment, you're a floating head :) Could the "bladder" re-use gas storage towers?

[@Karagoth444]

Cool Worlds did an excellent video on the amount of lithium on Earth and if it's enough to cover EVs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3nKcpaYpdiooKs For my own take, lithium for grid storage is wasted, because grid storage doesn't need to be light, and needs something more safe for the insane amount of energy we need to store.

[@CHIEF_420]

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[@CUBETechie]

Do you can use it like this: Burn still fossil fuels but the CO2 goes in the balloon

[@drillerdev4624]

But if the C02 is not wasted, you can only fill them once. It's not as if the CO2 was converted back to biofuel, for example.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

It's an excuse.

[@splouffy]

you look like Gillette before and after videos.

[@RobotProctor]

Everything on this channel is BS 😂 made me laugh

[@arleneschuster6884]

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