Load balancing system involving the collection, distribution and usage of energy using the proposed Hydrogen Transmission Network as a complement or alternative to high voltage transmission

Abstract

The perfect control over energy generation is one attractive feature about fossil fuels. Randomness in energy generation, leading to wasted surpluses or long-spaced shortages, is an inescapable feature of renewable sources leading to inefficiency. This paper proposes a new “load-balancing” method to solve in the most comprehensive and universal manner the outstanding issues relating to the collection, storage and distribution of energy. Here hydrogen created from locally surplus energies is not just the fuel but also the carrier of energy with widespread hydrogen piping systems linking multiple sources and sinks. The outcome from the implementation of this proposed “Hydrogen Transmission Network” technology will primarily result in available, cheap and in theory unlimited energy in remote areas not yet reached by the electricity grid. Pure water and oxygen will be the local by-products. Populated areas will be influenced over time; allowing either a graceful degradation of the currently established high voltage power distribution systems, or mutually supportive existences. It is expected that in due course this proposed technology will reverse the current ratio of fossil fuel energy usage to renewable energy usage.