ice banks storage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:15:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 CALMAC Stores Surplus Wind Energy in Ice Banks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/calmac-stores-surplus-wind-energy-in-ice-banks-20091125/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/calmac-stores-surplus-wind-energy-in-ice-banks-20091125/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:15:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5503 While some green projects store the excess energy in a kinetic form, such as the fore-mentioned flywheels, others are inventing ways to use frozen water to collect surpluses from wind farms, which are more productive at night, when winds are stronger.

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