Blue balloon energy storage

Could a giant balloon store energy in Lake Ontario?

In the depths of Lake Ontario, giant underwater balloons are set to store some of Toronto’s excess energy. Toronto-based Hydrostor activated what it claims is the world’s first underwater compressed air energy storage system last week. The system uses compressed air to store energy generated during non-peak periods.

Can balloons be used to store energy?

Their walls contain compressed air with the potential to become electricity. These balloons are part of an innovative, emissions-free scheme to store renewable energy from the company Hydrostor. You see, wind energy is wonderful and solar panels are superb, and these technologies becomes more efficient every year.

Can underwater balloons save energy?

The underwater balloon system produces zero emissions and conserves heat from the compression process to be reused. Commercially viable energy storage technology is a key to establishing mainstream renewable energy.

Could Hydrostor's underwater balloons make energy storage possible?

Hydrostor's underwater balloons could at least make the energy storage method possible in communities near the ocean or deep lakes. Sitting under roughly 180 feet of water, Hydrostor’s six test balloons measure 29.5 feet tall and 16.4 feet wide.

Can a beach ball be used as energy storage?

Anyone who's held a beach ball underwater knows how powerful a force buoyancy can be. Now it's being harnessed as a grid-scale energy storage system that could be cheaper than big batteries

Why do balloons have to be sealed at the bottom?

The balloons have to be sealed at the bottom because the air has to be held at higher pressure than the water pressure if the air is going to do any work. This is such an obviously unworkable concept as to raise questions about why anyone is willing to spend serous money to study it.