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Long Term Energy Storage

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The seperation of the collecting and storage units in the conventional solar system permits the efficient design for each unit. Although the efficiency of such systems is quite high so is the unit cost. These systems cannot be scaled up for longterm large energy storage. The large collecting areas and large storage units will be prohibitively expensive. The long term energy storage calls for a different approach. For solar energy to be competitive, the system must be designed where large collecting areas or large storage capacity or both should be cheaply available. In this chapter some such concepts are discussed. In solar pond, both large collecting areas and storage are inexpensive. In other concepts the insulating properties of earth are used to provide large storage space. In this chapter some longterm storage concepts and problems are discussed briefly.

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  1. Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    H. P. Garg (Professor of Solar Energy) & S. C. Mullick (Assistant Professor)

  2. Physics Department, Ramjas College, Delhi University, Delhi, India

    A. K. Bhargava (Assistant Professor)

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Garg, H.P., Mullick, S.C., Bhargava, A.K. (1985). Long Term Energy Storage. In: Solar Thermal Energy Storage. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5301-7_5

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