notmadnomad

Granted the immense infrastructure investment, but why not ditch electrical and natural gas for hydrogen? Hydrogen is much safer, cleaner, and less lossy than either.

For fixed-site applications of sufficient land area and scale, it's difficult to beat pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH). The round-trip efficiency is around or above 70%, the same or better than CAES. CAES is probably best used in applications similar to flywheel (FES), away from occupied areas.

Speaking of car paint, I have a mid-80's VW Westfalia camper in need of a fresh, bomb look.

Honestly, what paint job would you go with in the US southwest?

1. Two-tone red and white with matching interior

2. One of those radioactive-fluorescent 80's pastel colors like shouting in all caps: school bus green, hot pink, magenta, baby-blue-cyan, bright red

3. Boring smoke metallic fleck silver like a Mercedes Sprinter conversion with a vibrant custom plaid interior

4. Something else even more ridiculous

If it makes any difference, I'm a straight dude and it has to be appealing to 20-somethings.