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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Has Belgium Cracked the Problem of Storing Wind Power Electricity?

Has Belgium Cracked the Problem of Storing Wind Power Electricity?

Many believed that the 11 March 2011 nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi complex was the death knell for worldwide interest in nuclear power.That has not proven to be the case, but many countries have scaled back their nuclear efforts and Germany has abandoned it completely.The central question for countries stepping away from reliance on nuclear power to generate electricity is that renewable energy alternatives such as solar and wind lack the capacity to generate power 24/7.Now Belgium, whose own nuclear industry…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Has-Belgium-Cracked-the-Problem-of-Storing-Wind-Power-Electricity.html

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