{"id":132,"date":"2011-08-21T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-08-21T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T14:17:52","slug":"batteries-are-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"batteries are bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>if you think how much material and weight goes in a battery, just to store a few electrons &#8230; and you always have some chemical reaction with some degradation of the materials used &#8230; somehow crazy.<\/p>\n<p>how about storing ions, eg nitrogen ions, in liquid form in a cryotank? you gotta deal with the temperatures and the pressures, but since the tank would contain only ONE inert chemical there&#8217;s no degradation, and you can just liquify air (and filter thru boiling point) to get more nitrogen. the supply is almost unlimited! besides liquifying can be done thru a mechanical process only &#8211; compression &#8211; which could be powered thru wind, without going thru conversions etc, just a plain simple mechanical link from the turbine blades to the compressor<\/p>\n<p>even if you don&#8217;t use the ion effect, you can still use the liquid N2 to improve efficiencies of existing processes (by creating a larger delta t while burning conventional fuels) or you use it straight for airconditioning etc and then drive another turbine with the exhaust to recover even more energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you think how much material and weight goes in a battery, just to store a few electrons &#8230; and you always have some chemical reaction with some degradation of the materials used &#8230; somehow crazy. how about storing ions, eg nitrogen ions, in liquid form in a cryotank? you gotta deal with the temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cng-and-electrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}