Thursday, August 27, 2009

PG&E Generates Power with Compressed Air

Pacific Gas and Electric wants to take energy from wind farms and store it underground in California's Kern County. The utility hopes to take wind power generated at night - when the winds in California blow hardest - and use it to compress air, which would be stored in a formation of porous rock.

During the day, when the winds die down, that pressurized air could spin a turbine to...

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