Regarding the webinar I did on Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), Matthew Graham writes: This is the best idea for grid level storage I have seen. Why such little publicity? This is so simple and beautiful you would think it …
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Advanced Rail Energy Storage – Demo and Barbecue
I’m headed up to the deserts of California tomorrow to check out an important event in renewable energy history. To be specific, I’ll be on the outskirts of Tehachapi, a small town noted in song, to see a demo of …
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Advanced Rail Energy Storage — Webinar
Here’s a webinar I conducted yesterday on Advanced Rail Energy Storage, or ARES, a new concept in cost-effective, grid-scale energy storage. I interviewed ARES CEO Jim Kelly, and covered a range of issues spanning the physics and economics of energy …
Advanced Rail – New Concept in Energy Storage
Jim Kelly, CEO of ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage) has generously consented to do a webinar with me in the near future, which I think readers will find valuable. Insofar as solar and wind are intermittent resources, energy storage at …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage
About a year ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to a meeting of the executive team of ARES, Advanced Rail Energy Storage, a company with a unique concept that competes against pumped hydro. I hope you’ll check out …
Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Will Help Displace Coal-Fired Power Plants
In prepping for the upcoming webinar on ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage), I’m recommending that the company position itself more aggressively around the integration of renewables into the grid-mix and, in particular, the imperative to displace coal immediately. As I …
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“New” Concept in Energy Storage
Here’s a piece on a subject we haven’t talked too much about recently: energy storage. In this case, it’s analogous to pumped hydro (see left) or advanced rail energy storage, both of which take off-peak energy and use it to …
Plant-Based Meat
There are plenty of reports that extol the virtue of replacing beef farming with meat products that are derived from the various proteins found in plants, e.g., the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. Meat and dairy rely on huge quantities …
Concept in Energy Storage
Here’s another one of those clean energy concepts that falls under the category: “will ‘work,’ but would be so ridiculously expensive that it will never be built.” It’s an idea in the energy storage space that’s a variant of “advanced …
New, Completely Unworkable Concept in Energy Storage
Six or eight years ago, a client paid me a small fee to provide my opinion of a concept called “advanced rail energy storage,” or “ARES.” It’s essentially pumped hydro without the hydro. In other words, it replaces water with …
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