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DYK: Waste, Waste As Far As You Can See

by | Apr 22, 2019 | 11-Building Performance and Quality, Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Global Trends Shaping the Industries Future

Did you know total annual Municipal Solid Waste generation in the U.S. has increased by 73% since 1980, to the current level of about 262 million tons per year? Can you imagine what it is now!? Further, generation increased by 22% over the same time period, from 3.7...

DYK: Pumped Hydroelctric Storage

by | Apr 22, 2019 | Building, Construction, & Architecture, Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know pumped hydroelectric storage systems generate electricity by pumping water from a low to a high reservoir, releasing the water from the higher reservoir through a hydroelectric turbine only when electricity is needed? 94% of U.S. energy storage is from...

DYK: Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)

by | Apr 22, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

DYK-Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) CAES captures and stores compressed air in an underground cavern. To create electricity, the pressurized air is heated and expanded in an expansion turbine, driving a generator. As of June 2018, there are 4 operating CAES...

DYK: Advanced Battery Energy Storage (ABES)

by | Mar 25, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know that ABES stores electrical energy in the form of chemical energy, which is then converted back into electricity when needed? Batteries contain two electrodes (anode and cathode), two terminals composed of different chemicals, and the electrolyte that...

DYK: Flywheel Energy Storage (FES)

by | Mar 25, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know that in 2018, flywheels accounted for 0.058 GW of rated power in the U.S. and have efficiencies between 85-87%. FES systems store electric energy via kinetic energy by spinning a rotor in a frictionless enclosure?.. The rotor is sped up or down to shift...

DYK: How Do you Store Large Scale Energy?

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment, KEY THEMES

Did you know that PHS and CAES are large-scale technologies capable of discharge times of tens of hours but are geographically limited. Several EES technologies are in research phases, but five storage technology types are considered deployed: Pumped Hydroelectric...

DYK: Delivered Powers Impact on Energy Storage?

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know 2.5% of delivered electric power in the U.S. is cycled through a storage facility. For comparison, 10% of delivered power in Europe and 15% of delivered power in Japan are cycled through energy storage facilities.

DYK: More Energy Storage Needed

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know as of June 2018, the U.S. had over 25.2 GW of rated power in energy storage compared to 1,082 GW of total in service installed generation capacity. Globally, installed energy storage totaled 175.8 GW.

DYK: Greenhouse Gas Emmissions- Which Energy Source Does It Best?

by steve | Feb 25, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

A geothermal power plant emits roughly 11 times less carbon dioxide (CO2) )per unit electricity that the average U.S. coal power plant.

DYK: Geothermal Energy-What Is It?

by | Feb 25, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment

Did you know Geothermal energy is derived from the natural heat of the earth. It exists in both high enthalpy (volcanoes, geysers) and low enthalpy forms (heat stored in rocks in the Earth's crust)? Nearly all heating and cooling applications utilize low enthalpy...

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