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Category Archives: energy storage

Power Spikes

Monday, March 3, 2008

Energy Storage is a means to smooth out intermittent power supplies or demands. It lets you shift the power from one time period to another. It lets you create a distribution system which sized for average load rather than peak load. The more isolated your power system the more you need all these. The electric [...]

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Iowa Stored Energy Park

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

For some reason I’ve become interested in energy storage.  I seem to be thinking that storage is the nub of solving the problem of peak oil (et. al). So, currently I’m reading Energy Storage: A Nontechnical Guide (isbn, worldcat) which was published in 2006.  It’s a fun book for a geek.  Fun, like reading popular [...]

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