When I first came across the click-bait garbage at left, I was reminded of an earlier post I wrote on the subject of the history of this form of energy storage. Various countries in Europe began using the potential energy …
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Gravity-Based Energy Storage
Hardly. Gravity-based energy storage for electricity has been in use since the 1890s. Storing mechanical energy with heavy objects goes back to ancient times.
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Pumped Hydro Soon to Go Into Its Second Century
These people claim: An American startup just unlocked hydropower from dry land — with no rivers or dams. In a radical rethinking of water-based energy, an American startup has developed a closed-loop hydropower system that works without a natural river …
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Sodium Ion Batteries: Vapor?
Sodium-ion batteries have been around for about 30 years, and there are people who believe that a handful of developers may be close to commercializing this class of technologies. That said, if you have to tell us that your investment …
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Is This a Good Clean Energy Investment?
Well, first let’s answer a vitally important question: What is it? What exactly do these people do? To find the answer requires some work; it’s not revealed anywhere close to the top of their website. It turns out, it’s solar …
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Energy Storage Investors Should Study This One Carefully
Sodium ion batteries have been under development by the world’s best minds since the mid-1990s, meaning that they’re hardly “unknown tech.” These people (who have no apparent technology value-add whatsoever) just might make you rich, claiming to help investors turn …
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Energy Storage
A reader notes: Here is a 10 MB hard disk from the 70’s that I was told cost $40k. Sitting on it is the 1 terabyte hard drive from my laptop. The cost (and size) of data storage is a …
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“Gravity Batteries”
Below is a claim about a type of energy storage that exists in great abundance today in the form of pumped hydro. We take off-peak electrical energy and use it to lift a mass against the force of gravity, converting …
Flywheels as Energy Storage
The subject of energy storage is like anything else in technology: lots of entrants of completely different types that, over time are winnowed down, and ultimately, the “winners win and the losers lose.” What happens next is that the losers …
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Living Off the Grid
These proponents of sodium-ion batteries ask, Is living off the grid the new norm? The answer to this question is no. Obviously if you’re one of the tiny fraction of 1% of the world’s population who lives in a house …
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