Energy Storage
Figures from text (Fundamentals of
Environmental Physics, Forinash).
Overheads, tables, instructor notes:
- Energy content of various fuel storage
materials.
- Energy content of food and
energy expenditure.
- Embodied energy of materials: general,
car, coffee
maker.
- Load Leveling: weekly, seasonally, typical mix.
- Solar thermal: Trombe wall, Mesa Verde
1, 2, Canyon de Chelly.
- TVA pumped storage.
- Below ground hydro (PDF).
- Compressed air (PDF).
- Formulas for moments of inertia,
cross section of flywheels (PDF).
- National Renewable Laboratory storage
project.
- Electopaedia site on Batteries and Battery University
(more than you want to know!).
- Battery types, battery comparisons, more mcomparisons (PDF).
- Fuel cell/battery chemical
formuals (PDF).
- Ultra Capacitor: one (PDF).
- Comparison tables of storage types: one, two, three, Rogone plot, overview, energy vs power (PDF).
Articles.
- ‘The
hydrogen economy, fuel cells, and electric cars’ R. Shinnar,
Technology in Science 25 (2003) p455.
- 'The
Hydrogen Economy' M. L. Wald, Scientific American vol. 290 No. 5 May
(2004) p69.
- 'The Hydrogen Economy' G. W. Crabtree, M. S.
Dresselhaus, M. V. Buchanan Physics Today vol. 57 No. 12 Dec.
(2004) p39.
- 'Special Issue: Toward a Hydrogen Economy',
various authors Science Vol. 305 (August 13 2004).
- 'Batteries and electrochemical capacitors', O. B. Toon, A. Robock, R. P.
Turco, Physics Today, vol. 61, no. 12 (2008) p43.
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Forinash, for comments/suggestions/corrections.