A stream of compressed air does not look like a power source. In factories, it usually hisses through pipes, drives tools, then disappears as waste. But under the right conditions, that same airflow ...

Newly formed firm Energy Storage and Power plans to make compressed-air energy storage machines for utilities that need storage for wind and solar power sources. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Engineers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have run a hydrogen gas turbine without a mechanical compressor for 303 seconds, beating a prior NASA benchmark of 250 seconds for similar ...

Described as the world’s most powerful single-unit CAES compressor, the system can reportedly reach a maximum discharge pressure of 10.1 MPa and a rated power of 101 MW. It operates across a load ...

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have developed a way to use compressed air storage to store solar power and provide additional cooling. They claim their prototype could compete with ...

It's no longer news that the growing emphasis on sustainability is leading the charge for higher efficiency. When discussing energy use in manufacturing environments, the Big Three - water, ...