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Hawai`i Energy Storage 7: Beyond chemical batteries 24 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Chemical batteries are the first energy storage technologies that leap to mind, but they are far from being the only show in town. Heat storage ...
Hawai`i Energy Storage 6: Some of the chemical batteries 23 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE There is no shortage of announcements of a new, cheap, powerful battery technology that will transform the energy industry. Indeed,...
Hawai`i Energy Storage 5: Energy storage solutions without chemical batteries 20 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Chemical batteries are a traditional energy storage medium, but batteries are hardly alone. In this installment of our energy stora...
Hawai`i Energy Storage 4: Running the battery numbers--prepare to be confused 15 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE There are all kinds of ways to store energy. First thing to come to mind is a chemical battery, and there are all kinds of chemical batteries. W...
Hawai`i Energy Storage 3: Energy experts review the future of storage 14 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE A small group of highly educated geeks got together recently to talk about the current state of research in utility-scale energy sto...
Hawai`i Energy Storage 2: Time travel and stacked services 13 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
The numbers generally don’t add up for a homeowner with a solar array to put in a big battery system and go off-grid—it’s too costly. But it CAN make sense for utilities—largely because they can make...
Hawai`i Energy Storage: Many storage technologies compete to back up intermittent renewables 13 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE You can’t run a 24/7 power system on intermittent renewables like wind and solar. They won’t keep the lights on. But the Islands a...
Hawai`i research: Climate change with us for seven generations, or more 9 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE University of Hawai`i researchers, after studying previous climate cycles, conclude that climate change will be with us a long, long time. And i...
The story about GMO-fed pigs with stomach ailments? Not exactly what they're claiming. 5 Jul 2013 | 01:25 am
Lots has been made of a report that GMO feed causes stomach inflammation in pigs. As usual, popular accounts of the science don’t tell the whole story. If you read the study, and we did, you’ll find ...
Hawaiian petrels forced to eat lower on food chain, industrial fishing blamed 13 Jun 2013 | 02:20 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Hawaiian petrels are eating far lower on the food chain, and a new study blames that on industrial fishing. The takeaway from that is that the e...
