Bigger Wind Turbines & Taller Towers - Perhaps of Wood or Concrete

Amazing tech stories this week! Taller wind towers (wood and cement); bigger land-based turbines (5.6 MW) coming to U.S.; liquid air batteries getting real; so are solid state; and 8Minute planning on 24 GWh of installations

1) Wooden wind towers - up to 150 meters) may be cheaper than steel says Modvion.

2) GE says not so fast, we plant to print towers with concrete and get to 200 meters.

3) Vestas showing off its monster land-based turbines with an order in TX for 5.6 MW machines.

4) More wind = more need for storage, which is good for HighView, who is building its 1st large liquid air storage facility in the UK, at 50 MW/250 MWh, teamed with a combined cycle gas turbine.

5) 8Minute Energy is going to use a whole heck of a lot of batteries, planning on 24 GWh of storage tied to solar projects.

6) and VW investing another $200 mn in solid state tech and associated manufacturing capability.

Things are about to get very interesting...