ice energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:56:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunpower-ice-energy-storage-20100913/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunpower-ice-energy-storage-20100913/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:25:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10225 Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.

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