| $Windpower-Energy Storage$: 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar. |
| "How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks: Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps. |
| A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth: Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover] |
| Alternative Energy Storage Surprises: Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. |
| California Distributed Energy Resource Guide: Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air. |
| Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?: Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical. |
| Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen: Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery. |
| CLRC Energy Research Unit: Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels. |
| EERE: Power - Energy Storage: U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors. |
| Electricity Storage Association: "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies |
| Energy Storage: history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library. |
| Energy Storage: Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits. |
| Energy Storage: Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues. |
| Energy Storage: Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details. |
| Energy Storage Council: 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. |
| Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian: Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book. |
| Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area: Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts. |
| Energy Storage: General: Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro. |
| Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems: Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth. |
| Graph: Shows system power ratings versus discharge time at rated power for several technologies. Includes several batteries, flywheels, Compressed Air Energy Storage, and pumped hydroelectric. |
| Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications: EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles. |
| Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts: book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information. |
| More on Energy Storage: College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem. |
| MORECARE Project: More Advanced Control Advice for Secure Operation of Isolated Power Systems with Increased Renewable Energy Penetration and Storage |
| No power? No problem: Machinedesign.com article about written-pole motors. "allows motors to operate more consistently despite weak, intermittent, or unreliable power supplies" |
| Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum: says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. |
| Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex): high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration. |
| Personal Energy Sources: Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary. |
| Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage: MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells. |
| Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system: with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency. |
| Pumped storage for renewable energy: Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste. |
| Written-Pole Technology: allows a simple, rugged power protection unit |
| YA Hydrogen article - positive this time: 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables |
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