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To: Sam who wrote (172910)	10/1/2011 12:26:40 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 544020

"We desperately need energy storage solutions to fix these problems." This is true. Also, maybe with a better grid, so German wind can complement Spanish solar, or Nev/Ariz solar and Kansas wind. Here's one kind of storage which might work well in Germany. They have a little hydropower now. en.wikipedia.org This "battery" is a respiratory therapist's wet dream (mine, at least. I thought about CAS in '74 and decided it was a dumb idea). Compressed-air storage coming to wind power news.cnet.com 24 hour solar plant Message 27474463 Message 27540713 Industrial grade lithium batteries sufiy.blogspot.com ultra-capacitors spectrum.ieee.org 250 million electric cars Message 26338324 and their old batteries Message 26338341 The Coolest Storage Technologies You've Never Heard Of Message 27027797