Tag: utility-scale energy storage

Can energy be stored by pushing heavy stuff uphill?  Of course.  That’s what pumped hydro is, which represents over 95% of the utility-scale energy storage current implemented on this planet.  It’s also what advanced rail energy storage (ARES) is, which …

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Regarding the webinar I did on Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), Matthew Graham writes: This is the best idea for grid level storage I have seen. Why such little publicity? This is so simple and beautiful you would think it …

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In the video I’ve linked, the young CEO of a high-tech start-up called Amprius, Chinese-born Yi Cui, talking about his background (Ph.D. from Harvard, currently a professor at Stanford), but, more importantly, providing a summary of his passion: batteries built …

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Taking my own advice and “following the money,” I note that Bill Gates is investing in a start-up whose product is utility-scale energy storage.  We are not far from the robust expansion of renewable energy, propelled by this solution (“aqueous …

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A young, bright, and extremely respectful friend sent me  this video on supercapacitors a few hours ago.  And, since he had been very active in communicating with me lately, he wrote, “Tell me to shut up if I get to be …

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The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record.  Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on …

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As a part of our recent discussion on energy storage, Larry Sobel wrote in, calling my attention to this fabulous lecture given by a brilliant and thoroughly entertaining chemistry professor at MIT, who calls upon his students to think differently and go …

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