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Compressed Air Converts Natural Gas to Energy More Efficiently - http://www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/esb/2003/03Aug/esb084a.htm
Energy Services Bulletin story highlights CAES as a way to more efficiently convert gas to electricity. |
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Compressed Air Energy Storage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage
Wikipedia entry includes equations in coverage of physics. |
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Energy Mine - http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/energy_mine.html
A defunct Ohio mine is turned into an energy storehouse. Osgood File (CBS radio) story about Norton, Ohio work includes contacts and links. |
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Ridge Energy Storage & Grid Services - http://www.ridgeenergystorage.com
Organization developing CAES projects in Matagorda and Harris Counties in Texas. Press releases, diagrams, graphs, and contacts. |
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Catching The Wind In A Bottle - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_41/b4053092.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_science
A group of Midwest utilities is building a plant that will store excess wind power underground |
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Huntorf CAES: More than 20 years of Successful Operation - http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak7/fze/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_Vortraege/AKE2003H03c_Crotogino_ea_HuntorfCAES_CompressedAirEnergyStorage.pdf
Eight-page paper with graphs about the oldest Compressed Air plant, in Huntorf, Germany. Includes principles, technical specifications, and an email address for the solution mining institute. |
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SSS :: Power Generation :: Pumped Air Storage (SSS Clutch for CAES) - http://www.sssclutch.com/powergeneration/pumpedair/highestclutch.htm
Commercial site promoting clutches used for Huntorf. Pictures of rotating machinery and a clutch. Simplified machinery arrangement diagram. |
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Iowa to Combine Wind Energy & CAES Technology - http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=47096
Story about park that would integrate a 75-150 megawatt wind farm with Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology includes reader responses. |
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The Compressed Air Car - http://www.scientificblogging.com/david_houle/the_compressed_air_car
Considers history of petroleum, and writes of MDI vehicle. "It is possible that by 2020 we could primarily be free of our reliance on the internal combustion engine" |
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Car that runs on air! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4hs607eNYQ&v3
Brief news video of Guy Negre's compressed air vehicle. Links to related video 1:47 [YouTube] |
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Storage, Use, and Handling of Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids in Portable and Stationary Containers, Cylinders, and Tanks - http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=55
(NFPA 55) page shows scope of standard, links to preview (uses RealRead) and contents. |
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Solution To Energy Woes Might Be Air - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/04/010427065723.htm
Sandia Lab's (USA Dep't of Energy) helps Haddington Ventures and Norton, Ohio. CAES history and Editor contact. [ScienceDaily] |
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SouthWest Quadrant - http://www.southerncompany.com/news/pdfs/SouthwestQuad.pdf
Utility map shows "Plant CAES" (McIntosh?) near a large dimple in a "Stability Contrained Area" |
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Compressed Air Storage - US - http://www.kellysearch.com/us-product-20192.html
Business addresses and links to suppliers. |
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Houston company to build Ohio unit using old mine shaft - http://www.nasvf.org/web/allpress.nsf/12b72a082f26b2e786256717005a97c0/86c0186220213de2862569da003c0c0e?OpenDocument
Article from Nelson Antosh of the Houston Chronicle describing 300MW units to go in near Norton, Ohio (USA). (Better than pumped hydro) 1,500 psi, 2,700MW total. (Houston Chronicle) |