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» "How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
   Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
   http://science.howstuffworks.com/blackout.htm

» $Windpower-Energy Storage$
   17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
   http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/browse_thread/thread/905b40bc119dc9f1/c472d685c409fc35

» A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth
   Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]
   http://discovermagazine.com/2005/feb/discover-dialogue/

» Alternative Energy Storage Surprises
   Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.
   http://www.powerpulse.net/powerLines.php?Id=99&page=1

» California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
   Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
   http://www.energy.ca.gov/distgen/equipment/energy_storage/energy_storage.html

» Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?
   Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
   http://www.mnforsustain.org/trainer_t_renewable_sustain_society.htm

» Distributed Energy and Energy Storage
   CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project.
   http://www.det.csiro.au/science/de_s/de_s_topics.htm

» Electricity Storage Association
   "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
   http://www.electricitystorage.org/

» Electricity Storage and Renewables?
   Transmission and Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association.
   http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2002/Lisbon_May_2002_KEMA.pdf

» Energy Storage
   San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles.
   http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/energy.html

» Energy Storage Council
   Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members.
   http://www.energystoragecouncil.org/

» Energy Storage Systems
   Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America).
   http://www.sandia.gov/ess/index.html

» Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area
   Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.
   http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julydec02/energy.htm

» Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian
   Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
   http://www.iee.org/Publish/Books/Energy/index.cfm?book=EN%20006

» Energy Storage: Not Just R & D Nor Necessarily Expensive
   Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries.
   http://pepei.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?article_id=256009

» Energy Storage: Value is Clear, But Who Will Pay?
   Energy storage devices have value to electricity production, delivery, and use. Options across the size spectrum are available today. Power Engineering covers the Electricity Storage Association meet.
   http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/210623/6/ARTCL/none/none/Energy-Storage:-Value-is-Clear,-But-Who-Will-Pay?/

» Energy storage
   39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored".
   http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=10454

» Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage
   Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides
   http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547/SCC21present200112.pdf

» Grid energy storage
   Wikipedia entry.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

» More on Energy Storage
   College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
   http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l10.html

» Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum
   says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
   http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=19012

» Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex)
   high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.1651

» Personal Energy Sources
   Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
   http://www.io.tudelft.nl/pes

» Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking
   Five-author eight-page paper describing the use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency.
   http://leiwww.epfl.ch/publications/lemofouet_rufer_cyphelly_barrade_grasser_store_03.pdf

» Pumped storage for renewable energy
   Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
   http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=APC%261%270%275765fa42%27df4%40igc.apc.org&rnum=3

» Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems
   (NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD)
   http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=111&cookie%5Ftest=1

» The Mechanical Battery
   "the average person has probably never heard of a flywheel battery, the concept is starting to be taken seriously by commercial and governmental interests". Pictures of components and applications.
   http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=909#more-909