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> In other words: gas compression storage suffers from temperature losses. Yes, and you can also compress air further when it's cooled (this is why there is an
by tristor 5y ago
> In other words: gas compression storage suffers from temperature losses.
Yes, and you can also compress air further when it's cooled (this is why there is an intercooler on turbocharged cars, as an example), this means your density per volume of storage is higher at a given pressure.
The reality though is that this is likely less efficient than many other storage mechanisms. Additionally, this may require some sort of additional energy input for reheating if the heat storage is not capable of holding long enough to fully reheat the air on release to get the highest turbine efficiency.