Underground Hydrogen Storage Pilot Gets Funding Boost
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on Energy Live News.
This is the sub-heading.
New hydrogen storage tech could boost grid resilience and emissions cuts
These first three paragraphs add some details.
National Gas and Gravitricity have secured £500,000 from Ofgem to develop a new type of underground hydrogen storage.
The H2FlexiStore system, designed by Edinburgh-based energy storage firm Gravitricity, aims to store up to 100 tonnes of green hydrogen in lined geological shafts.
The technology, which could see a demonstrator built in 2026, is intended to offer a flexible, resilient solution to future hydrogen network needs.
The article also has an excellent graphic.
Note that it takes 55.2 MWh of electricity to generate a tonne of hydrogen, so a hundred tonnes of hydrogen would store 5.52 GWh of electricity as hydrogen.
British Passenger In Seat 11A Survives India Plane Crash, Reports Say
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency.
This is the first paragraph, which adds more details.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik told ANI there was one survivor who was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight.
I do feel, that his window seat towards the front of the plane may have helped him survive.
This image on SeatGuru, shows the seat layout on an Air-India 787.
Seat 11A is in the front row of Economy on the left-hand side, by one of the exits from the plane.
It was certainly, a good place to be on a plane that crashed.
There is this Wikipedia entry, which is entitled List Of Sole Survivors Of Aviation Accidents And Incidents.
Surprisingly, there are over a hundred lucky souls on the list.
Do Animals Lose Water In Low Pressure Weather?
I feel I do and I wrote a post called My Strange Skin, which is explained by water being driven out of my body.
So I asked Dr. Google, the question in the title of this post and got this answer.
Yes, animals can lose more water in low-pressure weather conditions. Lower atmospheric pressure, often associated with unstable weather, can increase water loss through evaporation and other physiological processes.
Here’s why:
Low pressure often means lower relative humidity, which increases the vapor pressure deficit between the animal’s body and the environment. This difference in water vapor concentration drives more water to evaporate from the animal’s body, particularly through the skin.
That’s all very sound physics.
Last night, I was woken by an intense strange itch in the sole of my right foot.
- As I often do, I rubbed the itch on the a genuine Indian rug I have on the floor by my bed, but it didn’t work.
- So I had to get up and apply a dollop of Udrate cream and rub it in.
About, half-an-hour later I got back to sleep.
Today, I got a similar intense itch in the sole of my left foot. Again it was stopped by a dollop of cream rubbed in. But this time it was Body Shop’s Hemp Foot Protector.
Does water find it easier to get out through the soles of my feet?
The Anonymous Widower 