The world’s largest demonstration plant for a new kind of renewable energy storage is up and running in the west of the China. Called liquid-air energy storage (LAES) the plant uses renewable electricity to compress air to extreme densities until it turns to liquid. It can then be rapidly released to power a turbine and discharge that green energy back into the grid.

  • dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    So what you’re saying is that it still consumes energy to keep the air in that liquid form making it not worth keeping longer then a certain amount of time.