liquid air Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:58:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Liquid Air Energy Storage: An Alternative to Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/liquid-air-energy-storage-20121002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/liquid-air-energy-storage-20121002/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:58:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26339 The problem of excess energy storage might just have been resolved, as, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), liquid air is a strong competitor of batteries and hydrogen. Wind farms generate electricity at any time, therefore, when not used, this electricity can cool air to a cryogenic state.  When needed, the air can […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/liquid-air-energy-storage-20121002/feed/ 0 26339 CryoEnergy System Stores Peak Energy Into Liquid Air https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cryoenergy-system-liquid-power-20110331/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cryoenergy-system-liquid-power-20110331/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:56:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17727 The CryoEnergy System uses air comprised in refrigeration units and exposed to the extreme temperature of -196 °C. The resulted liquid air is then kept in an insulated tank, whose ambient pressure doesn't exceed 1 bar.

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