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).
  • Fuel Cell Today.
  • Fuel cell efficiency calculation.
• 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.