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Outline of energy storage

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to energy storage:

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Energy storage – accomplished by devices or physical media that store some form of energy to perform some useful operation at a later time. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator.

Types of energy storage

  • Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
  • Superconducting magnetic energy storage
  • flow batteries
  • Conventional batteries (e.g. rechargeable electricity storage system)
  • Gas holder
  • Grid energy storage
  • Fuel cell and hydrogen technology
  • Gravitational potential energy storage with solid masses
  • Capacitors (e.g. rechargeable electricity storage system)
  • Electromagnetic mass
  • Mainspring
  • Power to gas
  • Thermal energy storage
  • Solar chimney
  • Compressed fluids (e.g. compressed air)
  • flywheels
  • Vacuum storage (in rush generation technology)

    • History of energy storage

    Main article: History of energy storage

    General energy storage concepts

    1. Using a high density magnetic field. Energy E in terms of magnetic field strength B is

    E = 1 2 B 2 = 1 2 L i 2

    where L is the inductance of the electromagnet and i is the current.

    References

    Outline of energy storage Wikipedia
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