[Tagging] Power Storage Proposal (RFC)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Di., 29. Dez. 2020 um 13:30 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 10:34, Lukas Richert <lrichert at posteo.de> wrote:
>
>> There are batteries or rather energy storage devices based on
>> gravitational, mechanical or kinematical approaches such as flywheels,
>> compressed_air etc. The question is how broadly we would define battery I
>> think?
>>
> A battery is a series of electrochemical cells.  In popular use single
> cells are also called batteries but, strictly speaking, a battery is
> two or more cells connected in series.
>
> I wouldn't find it helpful to consider pumped storage and flywheels as
> being batteries.
>


I agree with this. While flywheels could be considered mechanical
batteries, it seems more intuitive to give them their own tag (something
like "flywheel"), and restrict the "battery" key to electric batteries
(which is still a huge field). For pumped storage there are already tags
(IIRR).

Cheers
Martin
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