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This isn't new...I recall grad students working on this as far back as 2010. Some citations from an article: “Bottled wind could be as constant as coal.” Wired

This isn't new...I recall grad students working on this as far back as 2010. Some citations from an article: “Bottled wind could be as constant as coal.” Wired Magazine. Retrieved 7/15/2010, 2010, from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/compressedair-plants/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/compressedair-plan... 59 Cavallo, A. (2005). Controllable and affordable utility-scale electricity from intermittent wind resources and compressed air energy storage (CAES). Science Direct.

rplnt 5y ago
> This isn't new... Well, yeah, this is in the opening of the article: > It updates a long-standing technology that never took off for electrical storage. There is/was plant operational since 1970s in Germany[1], which looks similar to the Wired article, but different from some other solutions posted in comments. Missing some parts perhaps to be viable. 1. PDF: http://www.fze.uni-saarland.de/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_Vortraege/AKE2003H03c_Crotogino_ea_HuntorfCAES_CompressedAirEnergyStorage.pdf http://www.fze.uni-saarland.de/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_...