compressed air energy storage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:10:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Hydrostor Launches Underwater Energy Storage System https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-underwater-energy-storage/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-underwater-energy-storage/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:10:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57764 Toronto-based startup puts a twist on energy storage. Instead of expensive batteries, Hydrostor bets on giant underwater balloons. Technological advances in the field of energy storage have been quite slow, especially compared to what has happened in terms of improving energy generation technologies. Batteries have been accused to slow down the transition from fossil fuels […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-underwater-energy-storage/feed/ 0 57764 Compressed Air Energy Storage Poised to be a Contender https://www.greenoptimistic.com/compressed-air-energy-storage-poised-contender-20130827/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/compressed-air-energy-storage-poised-contender-20130827/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:28:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41110 Over the next decade, compressed air energy storage (CAES), a way to store energy generated at one time for use at another time, is expected to grow by leaps and bounds, according to Navigant Research. Despite being commercially available for nearly 30 years, compressed air energy storage hasn’t really taken off, until now, primarily because […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/compressed-air-energy-storage-poised-contender-20130827/feed/ 0 41110 Hydrostor to Launch Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage in Lake Ontario https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-compressed-air-energy-storage-lake-ontario-20120409/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-compressed-air-energy-storage-lake-ontario-20120409/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:30:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23868 Hydrostor, a Canadian company based in Toronto, wants to make CAES (compressed air energy storage) become a solution for every city in the world that has a deep water body around. The same technique had been used before in the energy storage industry by pumping compressed air inside Earth’s crust, but the high number of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrostor-compressed-air-energy-storage-lake-ontario-20120409/feed/ 1 23868 Compressed-Air Energy Storage Plants Offering Solution for Excess Wind/Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/compressed-air-energy-storage-plant-20100318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/compressed-air-energy-storage-plant-20100318/#respond Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7065 In the renewable energy field, wind turbines have played an important step, but today the future of wind energy may come from the underground. The compressed-air energy storage plants could be the solution. Air is pumped into large underground formations where it can be used later to deliver the large amount of energy that it previously received.

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