Open Directory - Science: Technology: Energy: Storage
See also: - Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps. - 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar. - Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air. - Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical. - CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project. - "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies - history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library. - Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits. - Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details. - Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members. - Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America). - Wikipedia entry. - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem. - high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration. - Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary. - (NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD) - "the average person has probably never heard of a flywheel battery, the concept is starting to be taken seriously by commercial and governmental interests". Pictures of components and applications. (October 12, 2007) - Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries. (May 15, 2006) - Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover] (February 15, 2005) - says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. (November 22, 2004) - Energy storage devices have value to electricity production, delivery, and use. Options across the size spectrum are available today. Power Engineering covers the Electricity Storage Association meet. (August 15, 2004) - 39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored". (January 12, 2004) - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides [PDF] (December 05, 2001) - Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. (June 04, 2001) - Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste. (April 21, 1997)
