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>I think you can store energy here not just in the gravitational potential energy of the water, but also in the compression of the air. I _think_ this means tha
by trenchgun 2y ago
>I think you can store energy here not just in the gravitational potential energy of the water, but also in the compression of the air. I _think_ this means that you can get away with a smaller cavern than you could for just pumped hydro.
+ they are storing the heat extracted from compressing the air.
- lucioperca 2y agoisn't that used when decompressing the air, i.e. closed loop
- jagged-chisel 2y agoYou just pull that from the atmosphere. Compress to store [potential] energy, take the heat generated during compression and use it, decompress at time of need and let the [hot?] atmosphere supply energy to the decompressing gas. I wouldn’t call it a closed loop, but maybe a lack of deficit.
- fanf2 2y agoI want to know how this heat storage works. It seems kind of important?