Lake Ontario 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 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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