underground storage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:09:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Utah-Based Company Digging Underground Compressed Air Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/utah-underground-energy-storage-20100209/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/utah-underground-energy-storage-20100209/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:09:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6532 Underground caverns may have never been seen as energy containers, but a Utah-based private equity group promises to use them filled with compressed air to generate electricity the classic way - by spinning a turbine.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/utah-underground-energy-storage-20100209/feed/ 1 6532 Study: Salt Water Can Keep the Injected CO2 Underground https://www.greenoptimistic.com/salt-water-co2-injection-20081122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/salt-water-co2-injection-20081122/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:45:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1221 We are now trying to bury the CO2, get rid of it somehow, and if fossil fuels came from down below, we think that by sending CO2 from where it came, we will solve the problem partially. And that may be true, regarding that sometimes the patchy solutions are best. So, let's try to patch our trouble.

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