SMES Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:37:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 SMES: New Energy Storing Technology by ABB Using Electromagnetic Fields and Superconductivity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smes-abb-superconductive-20110310/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smes-abb-superconductive-20110310/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:37:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17470 ABB, a Swiss-based engineering company, has presented a prototype of their innovative superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), at a DOE ARPA-E conference which took place in Washigton D.C. at the beginning of this month. Their 3.3 kWh proof-of-concept SMES is not very cost-effective for the moment, but may one day provide cleaner storage solutions for excess alternative energy.

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