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Energy Storage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage
Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
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Electricity Storage Association - http://www.electricitystorage.org/
"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
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Grid energy storage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
Wikipedia entry.
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Energy Storage Systems - http://www.sandia.gov/ess/index.html
Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America).
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Energy Storage Council - http://www.energystoragecouncil.org/
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.
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Energy Storage - http://www.energy.rochester.edu/storage/
history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library.
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Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems - http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=111&cookie%5Ftest=1
(NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD)
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"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - http://science.howstuffworks.com/blackout.htm
Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
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California Distributed Energy Resource Guide - http://www.energy.ca.gov/distgen/equipment/energy_storage/energy_storage.html
Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
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A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth - http://discovermagazine.com/2005/feb/discover-dialogue/
Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]
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Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547/SCC21present200112.pdf
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides
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Energy Storage - http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/energy.html
San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles.
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Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking - http://leiwww.epfl.ch/publications/lemofouet_rufer_cyphelly_barrade_grasser_store_03.pdf
Five-author eight-page paper describing the use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency.
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Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area - http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julydec02/energy.htm
Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.
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The Mechanical Battery - http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=909#more-909
"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.
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Energy storage - http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=10454
39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored".
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More on Energy Storage - http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l10.html
College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
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Energy Storage - http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l8.html
Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
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Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society? - http://www.mnforsustain.org/trainer_t_renewable_sustain_society.htm
Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
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$Windpower-Energy Storage$ - http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/browse_thread/thread/905b40bc119dc9f1/c472d685c409fc35
17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
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Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.1651
high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration.
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Personal Energy Sources - http://www.io.tudelft.nl/pes
Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
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Energy Storage: Not Just R & D Nor Necessarily Expensive - http://pepei.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?article_id=256009
Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries.
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Energy Storage: Value is Clear, But Who Will Pay? - http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/210623/6/ARTCL/none/none/Energy-Storage:-Value-is-Clear,-But-Who-Will-Pay?/
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.
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Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum - http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=19012
says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
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Alternative Energy Storage Surprises - http://www.powerpulse.net/powerLines.php?Id=99&page=1
Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.
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Distributed Energy and Energy Storage - http://www.det.csiro.au/science/de_s/de_s_topics.htm
CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project.
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Electricity Storage and Renewables? - http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2002/Lisbon_May_2002_KEMA.pdf
Transmission and Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association.
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Pumped storage for renewable energy - http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=APC%261%270%275765fa42%27df4%40igc.apc.org&rnum=3
Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
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Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian - http://www.iee.org/Publish/Books/Energy/index.cfm?book=EN%20006
Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
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