Just listened to part of your recent show. Energy storage. The problem with energy storage is that most people seem to always talk about it in relation to the power that they get from the wall and not the energy that they use from the tank of their car. I know that as soon as a great affordable electric car becomes available this is not a factor assuming universal conversion and all that stuff that I know you know will not happen until the pumps go away. So what about that?
I know you mentioned hydrogen fuel cells, and that they were thirty percent efficient, but what about other artificial fuels? Is there someone looking to make an artificial fuel that is an analogue to gasoline? The advantages that I can pull off the top of my head are 1) No new infrastructure. 2) No new vehicle designs needed. 3) Zero net carbon, what gets burned gets captured and stored for use again. 4) Near instant usage; once the first plant goes into production, the fuel could be added directly with the other fuels. 5) Easy to use no technology has to be invented to use the fuel source, which is the reason why you were focusing on grid storage.
The only problem that I could could see is that gasoline is not a very efficient fuel storage method, lots of energy in a small space, but hard to get it in there. Very stable once it is there though, as you said a few episodes ago in Science or Fiction.
Thanks for the 80+ hours of listening material every year.
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