Solution to high energy costs could lie underground

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Sandia researchers Steve Bauer and Georgianne Peek look at equipment that will be used to analyze core samples from the potential Iowa aquifer compressed air energy storage site. The data will provide necessary fundamental information used for the de ...
Sandia researchers Steve Bauer and Georgianne Peek look at equipment that will be used to analyze core samples from the potential Iowa aquifer compressed air energy storage site. The data will provide necessary fundamental information used for the design and performance of the underground air storage vessel. (Photo by Chris Burroughs)

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES).


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