Cryogenic Energy Storage at University of Birmingham

The Birmingham Centre for Cryogenic Energy Storage (BCCES) is the first in the UK to have a research facility for energy storage using cryogenic liquids, comprising new laboratories, state of the art equipment, and a major demonstration plant.

[@DiyNuke]

Still no big projects. Which for me kind of has 1 reason which would be its too expensive/efficiency too low

[@johugra1]

What bothers me about this video is that so few people have looked at it. This is a field where UK is ahead. It is an obvious form of energy storage that can operate on a large scale. Are there any nasty show stoppers out there? if not we should be shouting about this from the roof tops in the way other would. It would be good to see production scale facilities soon.

[@confluence61]

Video shared on LinkedIn, love it. This technology inspired me #Azergy a global concept of differents uses of liquid nitrogen in a past carbone society ...

[@vladimirnachev324]

totally supporting the idea should work fine with a sterling engine(or any TEG) instead a fire

[@jean-pierredevent970]

really very inspiring even if the efficiency would reach only 50% since this opens the way for many creative solutions for a lot of problems: you can use low grade waste heat which is probably present at many factories, you can replace those huge cooling towers of nuclear plants, you can use liquid air directly for cooling, airco, perhaps some form of transport could use this since it would have no toxic exhaust and recharging could go easier than with batteries, it's possible to plant this just about anywhere.. Perhaps very big new flow batteries could supersede this but even then first all that testing ;-) No,we need something reliable and proven today, the climate change is not waiting. I would start by asking every large factory with waste heat and/or cooling needs to produce it's own energy and store surplus with this so they are independent from the grid. That technology seems risk free.

[@Marty77712]

Some sort of perpetual energy mechanism. I've always thought about the potential energy of Cryogenic and thermal expansion. I knew there was a lot of energy lost in normal Cryogenic evaporation. I'm glad to see this energy is finally being recaptured. I'll be curious to see what comes out of this research.