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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by ballenf on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:43AM (#17145093)
Also flywheels don't give off noxious fumes during failure.
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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by naravara on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:02PM (#17146024)
For now. If you want to use one for long term energy storage, though, you're going to need to invent some kind of room temperature superconductor and frictionless surfaces. Who knows whether those would be noxious or not.
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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by smaddox on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:27PM (#17147394)
Why? Magnetic bearings and copper work just fine...
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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by jhayward on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:48AM (#17150700)
Are you sure? Metal fumes and vaporized epoxies are usually pretty toxic.
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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by tossandturn on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:54PM (#17145925)
...or during production (relatively speaking).
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