[Tagging] Power Storage Proposal (RFC)

[Paul Allen]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 12:21, François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>
wrote:

As electricity can't be stored, storage always occurs in a non-electric
> form and then involve only power generators.


Electricity can be stored.  Superconducting loops do exactly that.  They're
not useful for power storage, but they do it.

Rechargeable (secondary) cells are regarded as storage, not generation.
I don't know of anyone who would regard primary cells as generators,
either.  Cells may fit the IEC definition of "generator" but it's a stretch.
Outside the IEC, generators turn mechanical energy into electrical
energy, just as motors turn electrical energy into mechanical
energy.  A secondary cell is not a motor/generator set.

-- 
Paul


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Paul
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