Recently, we discussed the prospect of using compressed air as a form of energy storage. Unfortunately, it's hard to get much in the way of details on how the process actually works; there's only a ...

Newly formed firm Energy Storage and Power plans to make compressed-air energy storage machines for utilities that need storage for wind and solar power sources. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Researchers from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials have proposed to combine adiabatic compressed air storage (A-CAES) and large scale solid-oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC) for the ...

Clean energy resources, such as wind and solar, hold untold promise for a more sustainable energy future, but a big problem with these and other clean energy resources is their intermittent nature: ...

Compressor efficiency might not sound like the most exciting topic in the world, but consider this: the hotter the world gets – and the wealthier its developing countries become – the more air ...

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have developed a way to use compressed air storage to store solar power and provide additional cooling. They claim their prototype could compete with ...

HOT ROD Magazine has done several stories and tests on compressed-air supercharging, and we are bringing this story, which was posted in 2014, back to the surface because the concept has a renewed ...

Hydrostor’s GEM A-CAES has received a conditional loan guarantee of up to $1.76 billion from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to build the Willow Rock Energy Storage Center, a cutting-edge compressed ...

A startup says its compressed-air technology could do a better job of storing the power generated by wind turbines. SustainX, a startup in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, has received $20 million in ...

Compressed air is vitally important to all power plants. Although in some cases it is used simply for convenience, such as when operating certain pneumatic tools, in other cases, compressed air is ...