Vallourec’s Delphy Hydrogen Storage Solution
Hydrogen can be a nuisance to store.
I have just found a YouTube video of a system called Delphy from French company Vallourec.
Delphy seems a neat solution, where hydrogen is stored vertically in a 100 metre hole, that can hold a 100 tonnes of hydrogen.
You can watch this video.
I think this would be an ideal hydrogen storage solution for a bus or coach company or a truck operator.
Battery Energy Storage Park Plans Submitted
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A green energy company has pledged to fund up to £40m worth of community projects if a controversial battery energy storage system (BESS) in the North Yorkshire countryside goes ahead.
These three paragraphs fill out the story.
NatPower has submitted a planning application to North Yorkshire Council for the site on farmland near Thirsk.
If approved, the company said it would contribute up to £1m each year for 40 years to local businesses, charities and groups to develop “sustainable communities”.
However, campaign group Thirsk Against Battery Storage (TABS) said local residents remained opposed to the scheme.
If the developers of the BESS can afford to give forty million pounds to the community, there must be substantial sums to be made out of installing batteries like these.
I certainly believe that with the current government’s more relaxed attitude to renewable energy developments in the countryside, that we’ll see more batteries, solar panels and wind turbines on hill tops and behind barns band woods.
More and more bigger houses and small businesses will install solar panels, smaller wind turbines and batteries and find they can be independent of the grid.
Brazilian President Enacts Offshore Wind Law, Vetoes Fossil Energy-Related Additions
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into law the bill recently passed by the Brazilian Senate that establishes regulations on allocating and permitting offshore wind development areas. The Brazilian president has vetoed provisions related to fossil fuels in the final version of the legislation which were added while the bill was in the Chamber of Deputies.
It looks like President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has just struck himself off Trumkopf’s Christmas card list.
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Why Do Major Rail Projects Go Over Budget?
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Rail Technology Magazine.
This is the sub-heading.
Experts from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) will be questioned by the Transport Committee on their work advising the Government on planning major transport projects this week.
This is the introductory paragraph.
The cross-party Committee will ask witnesses, including NIC Chair Sir John Armitt, why infrastructure projects such as HS2 go over budget, how the Department for Transport can manage them more successfully, and the Government’s ability to learn from mistakes or from positive examples in other countries.
In my time, I have written a lot of project management software and it has generally sold well, especially in the fields of aerospace, construction, defence, oil & gas and vehicles. It has also sold well in Australia, France, Korea, Norway, The Netherlands and the United States.
In the UK, two major areas of Government ; rail and the NHS did not use any of my software, despite having large numbers of suitable projects, whereas nationalised companies like British Aerospace, British Leyland and Ferranti were big users. The Chevaline project, which was the refurbishment of the UK’s nuclear deterrent by the Callaghan Government also used my software.
I do find this split strange. A retired MP once told me, that it is traditional.
But Rail and the NHS always seem to get it wrong! Is it because, they are two government departments that deal a lot with the General Public?
On the other hand, the Inland Revenue seem to do better. But my planning software was used to plan the move to Telford!
Perhaps, there is a lot less traditional thinking in the Inland Revenue.
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