Hydrostor's forthcoming advanced, long duration, compressed air energy storage facility will support the community choice aggregation movement in California (screenshot courtesy of Hydrostor).
The greedy, grasping, living cartoon of a Scrooge who currently occupies the White House is leveraging coal power to support his plans for killing as many Americans as possible. Hopefully he will leave office again — peacefully, this time — before doing much further damage. In the meantime, energy storage … [continued]
Trump or no Trump, new large scale compressed air energy storage facilities can replace fossil power plants, including power plants in the US.
Whether it’s a malicious authoritarian plot or plain old bureaucratic bungling, President Trump has compromised air safety, public health, and national security, and capitulated to Russia, all within his first 30 days in office. That’s just the short list, and the hurts keep on coming. Nevertheless, clean energy investors still … [continued]
China is leading the development of compressed air energy storage with many new techniques it has recently perfected.
Use of underground formations for cost-competitive compressed air energy storage systems, image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
A new analysis indicates that compressed air energy storage systems can beat lithium-ion batteries on capex for long duration applications.
ChatGPT & DALL-E panoramic image of a cavern underground full of water with an engineer in a hard hat looking at it and scratching her head.
The other day, I published my doorstop assessment of the thermodynamics and operational challenges that limit compressed gas storage solutions, pushing them into the 100 GW of also-ran capacities. In comments in various places, people reminded me of the long-defunct LightSail and the now-getting-press Hydrostor. A bit of followup with … [continued]
