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Saving Extra Wind Energy Underground for Later

October 8, 2007 – 7:31 am

TreeHugger Seemingly taking a page out of carbon sequestration’s playbook, a coalition of local facilities in Iowa are working out a scheme to store surplus wind energy by placing it underground. The idea being to keep it safely locked up when demand is low so it can then be uncorked at a later date when [...]

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Utility Will Use Batteries to Store Wind Power

September 16, 2007 – 12:31 pm

Climate Crisis Coalition Utility Will Use Batteries to Store Wind Power By Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, September 11, 2007 “American Electric Power, a coal-burning utility company that is looking for ways to connect more wind power to its grid, plans to announce today [Tuesday] that it will install huge banks of high-technology [...]

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Solar Powered Storage Building in Portland

August 15, 2007 – 3:54 pm

TreeHugger Only in Portland would our leftover crap get treated so well, in a solar powered, LEED platinum storage building! Expect growth in storage facilities as we migrate to smaller spaces and can’t part with grandma’s treasures, but here it is absolutely coddled with 100,000 square feet of solar panels, water taxi access, rainwater collection, [...]

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