Energy storage | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:01:33 1 History
00:01:42 1.1 Recent history
00:03:08 2 Methods
00:03:18 2.1 Outline
00:03:32 2.2 Mechanical storage
00:04:04 2.2.1 Hydroelectricity
00:05:00 2.2.2 Pumped-storage
00:06:29 2.2.3 Compressed air
00:08:24 2.2.4 Flywheel energy storage
00:09:59 2.2.5 Solid Mass Gravitational Energy Storage
00:11:06 2.3 Thermal storage
00:11:23 2.3.1 Sensible heat thermal energy storage
00:13:07 2.3.2 Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES)
00:14:29 2.4 Electrochemical
00:14:38 2.4.1 Rechargeable battery
00:17:21 2.4.1.1 Flow battery
00:18:06 2.4.2 Supercapacitor
00:19:47 2.5 Other chemical
00:19:56 2.5.1 Power to gas
00:21:01 2.5.1.1 Hydrogen
00:23:44 2.5.1.2 Methane
00:25:15 2.5.2 Power to liquid
00:25:52 2.5.3 Biofuels
00:26:55 2.5.3.1 Aluminum
00:28:02 2.5.4 Boron, silicon, and zinc
00:28:19 2.5.5 Other chemical
00:28:45 2.6 Electrical methods
00:28:54 2.6.1 Capacitor
00:31:21 2.6.2 Superconducting magnetics
00:32:42 3 Applications
00:32:52 3.1 Mills
00:33:20 3.2 Home energy storage
00:36:01 3.3 Grid electricity and power stations
00:36:13 3.3.1 Renewable energy storage
00:40:20 3.4 Air conditioning
00:43:03 3.5 Transport
00:44:00 3.6 Electronics
00:44:33 4 Use cases
00:45:01 5 Storage capacity
00:45:37 6 Economics
00:47:53 7 Research
00:48:03 7.1 Germany
00:49:16 7.2 United States
00:50:59 7.3 United Kingdom



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SUMMARY
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Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time. 
A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery. 
Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential, electricity, elevated temperature, latent heat and kinetic.
Energy storage involves converting energy from forms that are difficult to store to more conveniently or economically storable forms.
Some technologies provide short-term energy storage, while others can endure for much longer.
Bulk energy storage is currently dominated by hydroelectric dams, both conventional as well as pumped.
Common examples of energy storage are the rechargeable battery, which stores chemical energy readily convertible to electricity to operate a mobile phone, the hydroelectric dam, which stores energy in a reservoir as gravitational potential energy, and ice storage tanks, which store ice frozen by cheaper energy at night to meet peak daytime demand for cooling.
Fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline store ancient energy derived from sunlight by organisms that later died, became buried and over time were then converted into these fuels. 
Food (which is made by the same process as fossil fuels) is a form of energy stored in chemical form.