Energy Storage
Renewable electricity becomes much more powerful when energy can be stored and made available when the Sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. Batteries, pumped hydro, thermal storage, hydrogen and other approaches are therefore becoming increasingly important parts of resilient low-carbon energy systems.
Seeing the larger connections
Whole Life Times will use this page to follow the developing science, technology and practical application of energy storage, while also considering questions of materials, resource use, recycling, infrastructure and scale. Storage is not an isolated technical problem; it is one of the connective tissues of an increasingly renewable energy system.
As this part of the Whole Life Times website develops, the page will connect relevant magazine articles, historical archive material, WLT Dialogues, books, research and related subjects. In that way it can grow from an introductory pathway into a richer and increasingly interconnected field of knowledge.
What will gather here
WLT Articles
Current and recent Whole Life Times articles directly concerned with energy storage and its wider connections.
From the Archive
Earlier WLT articles will be added as the historical print collection is scanned, recovered and classified.
WLT Dialogues
Relevant conversations with researchers, practitioners, thinkers and change-makers will progressively be connected here.
A subject page designed to grow
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