I looked into it, it kind of works like a compressed air energy storage, with the difference that there is no oxygen and so on there so it’s easier to change the state of the CO2 to liquid and store it in tanks. Later they decompress it and turn a turbine.
It’s also way saver than a storing hydrogen, because you just store it in liquid form at room temperature.
But I really wonder if this can be scaled big enough to be useful. I heard my dad just talking about is now and it coming up in news and so on, but there are videos on YouTube about it which are 3 years old. So in 3 years what happened? If it’s really innovative why are people not building it and stealing their idea?
When it comes to huge energy innovations from Italy I’m kind of sceptical, I remember years ago having to debate people about Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer who told me “You’ll see in 5 years once it’s deployed everywhere and revolutionizes how we make energy!”
I’m still bitter about it because there was never a possibility to go back and reexamine this claims 5 years later, because I’m not meeting those people anymore.
I’m rooting for it, but is seems to simple of an idea to not have been thought of before or at least with other things which we store as liquids while they are gases at normal pressure like propane or other LPG.
I believe that many brilliant ideas have not taken off because there simply are too many financial interests in other options.
Even the idea of lifting big heavy blocks while there is excess electricity and then letting it drop when needed, is great but hasn’t (yet) taken off.
I live in a country that has plenty of windmills but they get stopped when the generated electricity can’t be sold here or to neighbouring countries. This imo is silly
