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US 2013/0260263 A1Published application
Mobile energy carrier and energy store
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGünter SCHMID
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Abstract
A mobile energy carrier with which energy in the form of materials from zones distributed widely throughout the world, for example with a large amount of solar energy, wind energy or other CO2-neutral energy, for example the equator, can be transported to zones where there is a high energy requirement, for example Europe.
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A method for energy transport and/or energy storage, comprising:
- obtaining electrical energy from at least one of sun, wind, biogas, and excessively produced electrical energy;
- producing, from the electrical energy, an energy carrier formed as an elementary metal;
- changing the energy carrier to a transportable or storable species;
- transporting or storing the energy carrier in the transportable or storable species;
- and
- releasing the electrical energy stored in the energy carrier by reaction with at least one of water and oxygen.
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A method of manufacturing an energy transport and/or energy storage, comprising:
- producing an energy carrier formed as an elementary metal which stores an electrical energy obtained;
- and
- changing a state of the elementary metal so the energy carrier is usable as a transportable or storable species.
A method comprising:
- producing, from electrical energy obtained at a first global position, an energy carrier formed as an elementary metal;
- changing the energy carrier to a transportable or storable species;
- transporting the energy carrier in the transportable or storable species to a second global position which is different from the first global position;
- and
- releasing the electrical energy stored in the energy carrier by reaction with at least one of water and oxygen at the second global position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.