East Texas Getting Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant 248
First time accepted submitter transporter_ii writes "A compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant was first built in Germany in 1978, but East Texas will be the site of one of the world's first modern CAES plants. How does it work? A CAES power generation facility uses electric motor-driven compressors (generated by natural gas generators) to inject air into an underground storage cavern and later releases the compressed air to turn turbines and generate electricity back onto the grid, according to the plants owner. The location near Palestine, Texas was selected because of its large salt dome, which will be used to store the compressed air. The plant is estimated to cost $350 million-plus, and will create about 20 to 25 permanent jobs."
well if you ask me... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I wonder (Score:2, Funny)
It's bad for crab people, but I don't think they'll be able to use this one. The whole environmentalist movement was conceived by the underground crab people as a way to destroy humanity's industrial capabilities and thereby facilitate the crab people's takeover of the surface world. So, ironically, the environmentalists can't bring up the thread to subterranean crab people as this would mean admitting to existence of the conspiracy.
Re:CASE or CAES? (Score:5, Funny)
CASE = CAES Acronym Spelling Error
Re:CASE or CAES? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:CASE or CAES? (Score:4, Funny)
Iknowrite?
For a second there, I thought they had a winner, after all, they have a large amount of compressed gas already milking idiotic patents in the region... Storing the energy from all the East Texas patent lawyers might prove a great way to harvest alternative energy sources and reduce corporate trolldom!
Sadly, I fail to see how these efforts won't be thwarted by the same patent lawyers.