Energy Storage

Energy Storage Technologies & Their Role in Renewable Integration

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Energy Storage Technologies & Their Role in Renewable Integration

Andreas Oberhofer - Energy Storage Technologies

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Andreas Oberhofer - Energy Storage Technologies

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Andy from GENI gives a short presentation about energy storage technologies and how renewable energies are becoming more and more of an important aspect of today's energy grid. But with the fluctuating output of solar and wind energies, new ways need to be found to store energy and maintain a safe and reliable energy supply.

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Can Bolivia become a green energy superpower?

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The Salar salt flat in Bolivia. Domestic opinion is divided about the exploitati
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Bolivia has vast reserves of lithium, seen as the green energy fuel of the future, which it wants to exploit on its own. But the lithium is locked underneath a 10,000 sq km salt flat

Bolivia has more lithium than anywhere else in the world but its potential to fuel lithium-ion batteries for electric cars is in danger of failing.

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www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/dec/29/bolivia-green-energy-superpower-lithium

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Electrolysis Breakthrough for Solar Storage

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have combined a liquid catalyst with photovoltaic cells to achieve a super efficient (nearly 100%) electrolysis.

This becomes a very effective storage system. One obvious extension of this would be the cost-effective storage of daytime solar energy for night-time use. Excess capacity during the day could be stored as hydrogen and oxygen, then used in fuel cells at night when needed.

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