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China turns on the largest compressed air energy storage plant
- cjbenedikt 4y agoSome background here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/compressed-air-energy-storage https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/compressed-...
- hunglee2 4y agowhat is the ELi5 for Compressed Air Energy Storage - is it what it sounds like, just a massive pressure tank, energy being tapped by releasing the pressure?
- mjsweet 4y agoEssentially yes, they also get efficiencies from heat exchangers too on the way in and out: “The new Zhangjiakou plant does away with fossil fuels, using advances in supercritical thermal storage, supercritical heat exchange, high-load compression and expansion technologies to boost system efficiency.”