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‘Ocean battery’ targets renewable energy dilemma

ابتكار يحل معضلة إنتاج الطاقة الخضراء

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A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day or spinning swiftly when power demand is already met poses a problem for renewables, and is one researchers think can be tackled under the sea.

In one vision, offshore wind farms could use seawater to essentially store energy until it’s needed, helping wean humanity off fossil fuels.

“We came up with a solution that we call the ocean battery,” Frits Bliek, CEO of Dutch startup Ocean Grazer told AFP while showing off the system at the CES tech fair in Las Vegas.

Amid the growing push away from climate-warming energy sources like coal, stockpiling green energy is key, experts say.

That’s because nature does not always deliver wind — or sun — at the moment when electricity is most in demand.

Bliek’s “ocean battery” relies on massive flexible bladders on the seabed, which are filled up with seawater by the wind farm.

When the power is needed, the pressure of the ocean squeezes the water through the system on the seafloor that includes turbines — and the result is electricity.

A key consideration with energy is cost, and storage systems involving some type of battery are not only very expensive but also at risk of leaks or contamination in an ocean environment.

Systems that rely on pressure are already used in hydroelectric dams that pump water into the reservoir behind the dam when electricity demand falls, effectively storing it to come back through the facility’s turbines.

The US Department of Energy traces the concept, called “pumped storage hydropower,” to Italy and Switzerland in the 1890s, though facilities can now be found all around the world.

As for the underwater version of this type of storage, Ocean Grazer is not alone in trying to make it work.

– Get rid of fossil fuels –

FLASC, a spin-off of the University of Malta, has a system that uses renewably made electricity to pump water into a chamber that contains under-pressure air, which can then turn a hydraulic turbine to generate power.

Another initiative called StEnSea (Stored energy in the sea), uses hollow concrete spheres under the pressure of the deep ocean, and was tested in a German lake in 2016.

Bliek, the Ocean Grazer CEO, said undersea systems take advantage of the pressure below the ocean that is free, while creating a system that he said is about 80 percent efficient in storing energy.

He sees storage systems as key for renewables, which have boomed as the price to produce such energy has dropped and made them a steadily growing part of the energy mix worldwide.

Renewables are the fastest-growing source in the United States, increasing 42 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to the nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

Yet deploying systems like the “ocean battery” on the scale needed to work as part of an electricity grid is still years away.

Bliek said his company aims to have an offshore system in place by 2025, though one will be deployed onshore in the northern Netherlands by 2023.

Though various aspects of energy storage via pressure are not new, the pairing of it with green energy sources carries significant potential.

“With wind and solar now becoming part of the grid — basically allowing us to get rid of fossil fuels — in that context this is very exciting,” said Claudio Canizares, an engineering professor and renewables expert at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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يرى عددٌ من الخبراء في مجال طاقة الرّياح ورجال أعمال أنَّ الحلّ لمشكلة إمكان توقف توربينات توليد الطاقة عند عدم توافر رياح، يكمن في الإفادة من الضغط الطبيعي لقاع البحر.

وقال رئيس شركة «أوشن غريزر» الهولندية الناشئة فيرتس بليك لوكالة فرانس برس على هامش المشاركة في معرض لاس فيغاس للإلكترونيات: «وجدنا حلًا نطلق عليه اسم بطارية المحيط». وتعمل «بطارية المحيط» على جيوب ضخمة في قاع المحيط يتم ملؤها بمياه البحر بواسطة توربينة رياح. وفي حال الحاجة إلى الكهرباء، يتيح الضغط الممارس من المحيط على هذه الجيوب تمرير المياه عبر النظام الذي يضم توربينات، ما يولّد الطاقة.

وفيما تزداد النداءات للتخلّي عن مصادر الطاقة المساهمة في التغيّر المناخي، مثل الفحم، يمثل إيجاد وسائل لتخزين الطاقة النظيفة أهمية جوهرية لتلبية الحاجات المتزايدة إلى الطاقة، وفق الخبراء. ويعود ذلك إلى أنَّ الطبيعة لا توفر باستمرار طاقة الرياح أو أشعة الشمس في فترات تكون فيها الحاجة إلى الطاقة الكهربائية على أشدها.

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