Comments for Energy Bag Offers New Storage for Wind Power at http://ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://ecogeek.org Fri, 24 May 2013 10:02:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43854 I very much like the idea and think it is great engineering. I see just one risk. If the bag bursts you are better not sailing in these waters. It could probably sink a whole tanker. As the air rises it will become a huge bubble, approximately sixty times the size of the 20m bag. Therefore you will have to mark the water surface and better move it away from your swimming wind turbines. - Hugi Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:16:21 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43850 I posted this exact idea on Ecogeek 16th September 2010 within an article based on a wider use of compressed air: [url]http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3284[/url] The article also detailed massively increased compressed air storage on land or within vehicles in a small package using a different technology: [url]http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3284[/url] All stuff I took to the patent office years ago but didn't have the cash to complete. Good to see someone making money out of it. Pity it's not me :) Look for the article "Air is yet to make its mark" by Glen McDiarmid. - Glen McDiarmid Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:00:32 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43845 This sounds like you are getting the electricity to run the air compessors for nothing. You can't create energy!! IF you use the wind power to run the air compressors you take power away frfom the grid. Until a way to store electrical energy is designed "Wind POwer will Be A Use it or LOse it Power Supply" and the base power supply will come from conventional power plants. - tom Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:48:30 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43751 The wind mills dont pressurize the air. Elec powered air comperssors do. This artical isn't about wind, it is about power storage. The full artical also lists using contrete domes underwater and salt domes (cheapest if you got them). Yes there is a chance they could fail, and for that reason you would no place it in a shipping lane. But then again, why would you want to place them there. You know what happen if a LNG ship ruptures all its tanks while in port? Yet we still have a lot of the ships. - Matt Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:21:14 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43745 Looks like another science fiction job. If these bags rupture and burst, and a ship is above them, then the ship would sink like a stone. There would be no warning, just straight down it would go and possibly hundreds of souls would be lost. The bags are made from plastic. How can we be sure that some species of ocean creature will not find these bags attractive and attack them or slowly puncture them? I also doubt that the bags can be fully pressurised from wind power alone. - Carol Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:52:57 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43743 This could be a great step toward a more integrated use of wind energy in the electrical grid. The biggest problem with wind energy, as well as other forms of renewable energy, has been storage. - SpareFoot Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:20:09 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43736 Simple, eco friendly and with a definitely high positive impact!Wind energy has got an awesome potential! - Marcela Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:51:56 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/power-storage/3522-energy-bag-offers-new-storage-for-wind-power#comment-43725 The simplicity of this idea is striking. With a little luck and argument, this just might help to address those that knock the potential for wind energy to provide baseload power levels even in calm weather - an argument I've never really thought was valid. - Green Living Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:49:04 +0100