Unit 3: Energy Storage
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- Energy Storage
- Advantages
- Builds up enough for transportation e.g. tanker full
- Allows constant energy production rates
- Intermittent supplies - peak shaving
- Fossil Fuels
- Keeping fuels cool to avoid accidental combustion
- Nuclear Fuel
- Store less than critical mass of fuel - prevents chain reaction
- Pumped HEP
- Surplus electricity pumps water to reservoir, water flows downhill to turn turbines when needed
- Rechargeable Batteries
- Stores chemical energy
- Hydrogen
- Surplus electricity produces hydrogen via electrolysis which can be stored in fuel cells
- Advantages
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