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I've read about using a lot of small cheap containers, like plastic bottles, as compressed air batteries, but can't find the article right now. Apparenly a lot
by dmos62 6y ago
I've read about using a lot of small cheap containers, like plastic bottles, as compressed air batteries, but can't find the article right now. Apparenly a lot of small containers is a significant improvement over few (or single) large compressed air containers. Many small containers offer better space efficiency, they're cheaper, because you require less pressure (regular plastic bottles v. steel tanks), and their power output is steadier.
- nullsmack 6y agoThere's this article about using small containers: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-off-grid-compressed-air-energy-storage.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batterie... But it's not talking about using cheap things like plastic bottles. I'd be interested in reading the article you're talking about. It's hard to find much about CAES online because it's easy to run into the crazy people that think they're going to get free energy out of it or something.