So how is Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage project getting on.
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:45 pm
by Stan
Re: So how is Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage project getting on.
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:20 am
by AE-NMidlands
It sounds very promising - at last! But how on earth could a local authority be so perplexed that it couldn't see how to approve such a relatively low-risk plant in an area that has historically been a home to the chemical industry?
Looking at https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carri ... ?entry=ttu it does look as though the industrial area is spreading out onto "greenfield" land (if you can call bog reclaimed by tipping nightsoil "green!")
It's also good to heear that another couple are being planned near areas with plenty of wind turbines.
Re: So how is Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage project getting on.
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:25 am
by Oliver90owner
There might be objections, requiring investigation, re living/working adjacent to several tonnes of what may be liquid nitrogen?
Re: So how is Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage project getting on.
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:53 am
by AE-NMidlands
Oliver90owner wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:25 am
There might be objections, requiring investigation, re living/working adjacent to several tonnes of what may be liquid nitrogen?
It's not far from a power station and a paper mill, and I'm sure that a big area used to be an oil refinery... I wouldn't think that a big tank of liquid nitrogen would be particularly dangerous (compared with flammable gas storage,) not that I would want to be in a big leak of it. Hot and cold receivers too, but they seem to be solid-state and relatively low-risk.
I can think of lots of housing closer to far nastier stuff. But the point made in the video is that the council couldn't see how to approve it within current rules, not that it was too dangerous considering its location.