Floating railway will store 10% of Dutch electricity
This ‘energy train’ energy storage system, enables 2.5 gigawatts of electricity to be stored for an eight-hour period or 400 megawatts for 48 hours.
The energy storage market is blossoming. Because we need renewable energy storage to supply our smart electrical grids at daily moments the demand for energy is high.
In a few years, a huge underground floating railway will store 10% of the Netherlands’ daily energy.
The energy storage costs will be 10% of the normal costs.
The energy ‘train’ storage system will compensate Dutch peaks and troughs in the supply and demand of green energy like wind and solar.
The surplus electricity from wind and solar is used to set in motion a pure-mass floating maglev train within a vacuum tunnel (2.5 kilometers) and can reach a speed of 2,000 kilometers per hour.
At the high speeds the energy train would operate at, G-Forces would reach 10G (10 times the force of gravity)
This enables 2.5 gigawatts of electricity to be stored for an eight-hour period or 400 megawatts for 48 hours.
The kinetic energy can be reconverted into electricity and fed into the grid.
Investment
The costs of investment of the system will be 1 to 2 billion euros (1,088 – 2,18 billion USD).
This outlay will ultimately pay for itself as a result of reduced investment in a new electricity grid and high-voltage masts.
Even with the large investment costs due to the construction, initial calculations show that this solution has the potential to be significantly cheaper than the alternatives being developed.
The video is showing an animation of the Energy Train
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