Comments on: GE: Helping you know which way the wind blows http://www.gereports.com/ge-helping-you-know-which-way-the-wind-blows/ Your source for what's happening at GE. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Terneus http://www.gereports.com/ge-helping-you-know-which-way-the-wind-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-8552 John Terneus Fri, 22 May 2009 15:31:10 +0000 http://www.gereports.com/?p=2581#comment-8552 Use wind and solar excess electricity to produce hydrogen from water, which can be burned into electricty producing turbines at night and no-wind times. Use wind and solar excess electricity to produce hydrogen from water, which can be burned into electricty producing turbines at night and no-wind times.

]]> By: david foster http://www.gereports.com/ge-helping-you-know-which-way-the-wind-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-7468 david foster Tue, 05 May 2009 21:10:15 +0000 http://www.gereports.com/?p=2581#comment-7468 Great visualization! Thanks to GE Adventure for finding this. One question, though..how come the map doesn't show the vast energy storage facilities which will be required when a high % of the electricity comes from intermittent sources like solar & wind? Come to think about it, *what* will these storage facilities consist of? Pumped storage? Giant batteries? Or is the idea simply to install enough peaking turbines to handle the times when the load is high and the sun & wind aren't available? Great visualization! Thanks to GE Adventure for finding this.

One question, though..how come the map doesn’t show the vast energy storage facilities which will be required when a high % of the electricity comes from intermittent sources like solar & wind?

Come to think about it, *what* will these storage facilities consist of? Pumped storage? Giant batteries?

Or is the idea simply to install enough peaking turbines to handle the times when the load is high and the sun & wind aren’t available?

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