{"id":11116,"date":"2023-08-11T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2023-08-11T06:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:11:16","slug":"batteries-energy-storage-energy-density-atomic-fuels-for-rockets-planes-trains-truck-cars-grids-plants-moon-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=11116","title":{"rendered":"Batteries, energy storage, energy density, atomic fuels for rockets, planes, trains, truck, cars, grids, plants, Moon and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"default-style\">\n<p>Johnathon Briggs,<\/p>\n<p>I was going through the nuclear data centers and nuclear data on the Internet today.\u00a0 I was reading some notes at Argonne, there was a link to &#8220;Joint Center for Energy Storage Research&#8221;.\u00a0 Coming from the outside it looks like it is all battery research related.\u00a0 On the Internet there are groups working at all scales.\u00a0 New growth in space applications.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla batteries are somewhere in the range of 2 to 4 GigaJoules.<br \/>\nAirlines use about 50 to 100 GigaJoules\/hour for planes like (Boeing 777-300ER, Airbus A380-800, Airbus A350-900)<br \/>\nSpaceX Starship uses about 300 GW for up to180 second or 54,000 GigaJoules.<br \/>\nTesla MegaPacks can be used for Grid balancing, peaker plant replacement, wind and solar balancing.\u00a0 I see reference to 25 MegaPacks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"default-style\">Does JCESR look at <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">nuclear, atomic, electromagnetic energy storage?<\/span>\u00a0 Heavy ion beam storage, nanoparticle beam storage, direct nuclear electric, beamed energy?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"default-style\">On JESCR.org down in the details &#8220;grid&#8221;, &#8220;electric flight&#8221;, &#8220;renewable integration&#8221;, &#8220;long haul freight&#8221;.\u00a0 But no &#8220;Thrust&#8221; to help model the application economic and social impacts, nor competitors or partners.<\/div>\n<div class=\"default-style\">\n<p>When I worked at Federal Transit Administration I was looking at maglev and alternative fuels. When I worked at Phillips Petroleum Business Intelligence &#8211; hydrogen economy, alternative fuels, nuclear and global climate change &#8211; trains and planes, trucks and cars, power generation.\u00a0 So I tend to look at what people need, not what manufacturers say they want.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Suggest you add a Thrust to look at the whole picture and help everyone sort our options<\/strong><\/span>. It will show balance and planning.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnathon Briggs, I was going through the nuclear data centers and nuclear data on the Internet today.\u00a0 I was reading some notes at Argonne, there was a link to &#8220;Joint Center for Energy Storage Research&#8221;.\u00a0 Coming from the outside it looks like it is all battery research related.\u00a0 On the Internet there are groups working <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"\/?p=11116\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atomic-fuels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}