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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

Setec Powerr

This article will answer your confusion. Just like we put food in the refrigerator, we can store it for days or weeks without eating it immediately or discarding it. Others solid battery types are nickel-cadmium and sodium-sulphur, while zinc-air is emerging. So what exactly is energy storage? Mechanical storage.

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Waiting for Superbatteries

Cars That Think

But in a world that aspires to leave behind all fuels (except hydrogen or maybe ammonia) and to electrify everything, the preferred measure of stored energy density is watt-hours per liter. This article appears in the December 2022 print issue. By comparison, gasoline has 34 MJ/L and diesel about 38 MJ/L.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. run the hardware store and buy a new one. They make them all wrong.

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