liquified air Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Liquified Air Could Be Cheaper Energy Storage Than Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/liquified-air-could-be-cheaper-energy-storage-than-batteries-20130520/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/liquified-air-could-be-cheaper-energy-storage-than-batteries-20130520/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37431 The idea is a couple of hundred years old, but liquified air technology was just too inefficient to store energy. Of course, just like batteries of the 1880’s couldn’t hold a candle to today’s batteries, the technology needed to liquify air today is much more efficient. By compressing and cooling a gas, it can be […]

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