The US Department of Energy says it will lend $504.4 million to a massive Mitsubishi inspired project called the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Project – whereby hydrogen made from wind power is stored in Utah caverns ready to generate electricity. The Advanced Clean Energy Storage project is pretty much attached at the hip to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) project to do virtually the same thing – make hydrogen, store it in caverns under a Utah mountain and then drive it through a Mitsubishi natural gas turbine converted to run on hydrogen, and use it to power Los Angeles. In this instance it is powering a turbine owned by the Intermountain Power Agency for its customers,…