In message , Tim
Streater writes
In article ,
Java Jive wrote:

It wasn't a handwaving exercise, but it WAS an openly admitted
blue-sky thinking exercise.
Electrical storage is a big problem, and the original idea for a
solution came from Prof Mackay, not from myself. I am merely
wondering if it could be adapted more usefully than Prof Mackay's
original plan, which has significant disadvantages as stated.

If there are no even blue-sky possible solutions to the desire to have
*huge* capacity batteries, what is the point of discussing them. To say
we'd like them is just a statement of the bleeding obvious. Do you
think people haven't been looking into this for *years*, with no
significant progress?

I've done a bit of blue sky thinking - or was it green fields- and I
would like to turn lead into gold to solve the current economic crisis.
(That's the one in this household not the global one) I think it,
therefore it is. I think it must have been green fields thinking
--
bert