Dong Energy, a utility in innovative Denmark, has announced it is paring with a California company, Better,  to build up a national infrastructure to charge batteries for electric cars. They will make it possible for car batteries to be charged when the wind levels are optimum for wind generation. [You can read about the Danes' marvelous wind innovation in EnergyBiz.] Better is setting up a similar system in Israel.

The beauty of the vision is that it will solve the intermittency problem of wind. When wind blows, energy is cheap and car batteries can be recharged. If you are not at home to take advantage of the low prices, a local "gas" station can do the recharging and you simply swap out batteries as needed.

And the Air Force? They are going to build a facility to convert coal to synthetic fuel on a Montana AIr base, the first of many to help break our strategic vulnerability to a foreign oil supply disruption. Buckminster Fuller, the architectural visionary, once said that almost every major technological innovation was inspired by a military need. If the flyboys can get this going, who knows what impact it will have on the energy universe? Peabody and Arch Coal refilling stations will push aside grandfatherly oil companies?

Car batteries in Denmark charged by the wind. Air planes flying with coal juice. If you are not thrilled by such daily reports - you shouldn't be reading an energy blog!