Compressed Air Energy Storage
Types, systems and applications
David S-K. Ting
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021
The intermittency of renewable energy sources is making increased deployment of storage technology necessary. Technologies are needed with high round-trip efficiency and at low cost to allow renewables to undercut fossil fuels. The cost of lithium batteries has fallen, but producing them comes with a substantial carbon footprint, as well as a cost to the local environment.
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