Investigating Sustainable Power Sources & Renewable Energy Storage Systems

Let's Reimagine humanity's Future-Proof Power Sources & Sinks (Storage Systems). 

A. SOURCES A. Sustainable Energy Generation Systems (SEGS)

        AND

B. SINKS B. Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)

What will be Humanity's Main SOURCES of Sustainable Power in the 21st Century?

SOURCES A. Sustainable Energy Generation Systems (SEGS)

1. Solar Power Systems convert sunlight into usable forms produces electricity, heat, water AND

-cooling (through adsorption chillers), hydrogen, pure water, clean air & many usable bio-fibers

    >Thermal Solar Collectors produce usable heat for heating buildings AND making hot water

    >Standard Photovoltaic PV Panel Systems

    >Concentrated photovoltaics CPV using multifunction 40+% super-efficient cells/modules/panels/systems

    >Concentrating solar Power CSP --> solar energy transformed into heat converted to electricity with steam turbine

        -->concentrated Fresnel-->Stirling, Rankine, --> generates electricity

    >Other solar powered systems - thermophotovoltaics, thermoelectric, co-trigeneration, satellite space-bourne PV systems,

        holographic lenses, smart windows, biological organisms (like trees), passive solar architectural systems, daylighting

2. Wind Power Systems - onshore wind farms & offshore wind farms @ Low Altitude & High Altitudes

    >Ground Level-  HAWTs (standard wind turbines) & VAWTs (spiral aero-turbine) arrays

    >High Altitude Wind Power installations - ram air turbines, windbelt generators (piezoelectric / triboelectric / inductive)

        -auto-bots spinning high altitude aero-power installations (domes & kites)

3. Water Power Systems = Hydroelectric Power Generating Dams, Tidal Generators, Hydro-kinetic Current Generators,

    Wave Power Systems, Ocean Thermal Energy conversion OTEC plants, Osmotic Power & OGES Sea-Stems

4.  Biological Energy Sources include Plant Tissue & Animal Bodies / Flora & Fauna Energy Storage Systems

    >Flora Plant Powered - growing crops like miscanthus, poplar, switchgrass, hemp, corn, straw, grains, nut trees

        -harnesses PhotoSynthetic power to produce biobased feedstocks, biobased plastics, biofuels like butanol and ethanol,

    >Fauna / Animal / Human Powered - Humanergy --> muscle power of the human body, brainpower & muscle motion

        -piezoelectric generators, triboelectric generators magnetostrictive humanergic inductive generators

5. Fossil Fuels = natural gas, coal, oil, & shale --> we all know how these work :)

6. Nuclear Fission Power Generation - 4th and 5th generation nuclear reactors, no waste breeder reactors & thorium cycle

7. Geothermal Power Generating Installations - tap heat of the Earth's core cooperating with the Sun

8. Fusion Power Production- when achieved, will be the ultimate clean source of energy,

-inspired by solar processes --> Sology - the study of the Sun

What will be our systems of Power Storage? How will Humanity STORE renewable energy in the 21st Century?

Future Proof Energy Storage SINKS B. Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)

What will be Humanity's Main Energy Storage Systems in the 21st Century?

    Fossil Fuels (Oil, Gas, Coal, Shale), hydrogen, methane,

Biofuels (ethanol / butanol / biodiesel / biogas), biological organisms,

  Battery banks, super-capacitors, fuel cells, flywheels,

Thermal energy storage banks, compressed air storage systems (CEGS),

Raised Weight energy storage systems, Pumped Storage Systems - standard onshore systems &

Offshore AGES deep-sea pumped storage sustainable power generation platforms

What are the different types / kinds / categories of Energy Storage Systems?

    1. physicochemical energy stores (ESS) - barrels of fossil fuels (Oil, Gas, Coal, Shale)

    2. thermal energy storage systems - molten salt thermal energy battery system

  3. gravitational energy storage systems - raised weight systems + pumped storage power stations (AGES)

    4. electrical energy storage systems - huge battery banks, super-capacitors, fuel cells, flywheels

    5. biochemical energy carriers- biofuels (ethanol / butanol / biodiesel / biogas), bodies of biological organisms,

    6. physical energy storage systems - compressed air storage systems, tri-generation, flywheels, raised weight

    7. atomic / nuclear energy storage systems - enriched fissionable isotopes AND fusion power generation systems