oneiric
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Comment · 10 months ago
The fluid in high pressure storage is a liquid, making the storage much cheaper. Liquid N2 (most of air) would require over 40 times more pressure or cold temperatures. Purifying out CO2 or any gas is generally a negligible cost.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Hungry Judge Effect has been debunked. Not that your larger point is not valid.
Comment · 4 years ago
Also 2019
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
For even more detail, there is a book.
http://www.madisonholleranfoundation.org
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
About the "faster and faster" remark, turbines will only get to about double their nominal speed without load (called runaway).
Comment · 8 years ago
A Russian hydroelectric turbine (not too different from a flywheel) stored horizontally in a "vault" (a dam) killed 75 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenska...