Chinese Automaker BYD Unveils World’s Largest Battery for Renewable Energy Storage

BYD is already being known as China’s main producer of electric cars. They also produce their own ferrous batteries for the cars, which they now use to store wind and solar power in what represents the world’s largest renewable energy storage based on batteries.

Having the size of a football field, the huge battery bank can store 36 megawatt-hours of power. The State Grid Corporation of China is the project’s beneficiary, seeking to improve their renewable installation’s efficiency by 5 to 10 percent.

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Dean Benstead’s Yamaha Motorbike Runs on Compressed Air, Competes With Battery-Powered Ones

Compressed air has been one of the fields “in vogue” a few years ago (namely, four or five), ever since the invention of the DiPietro motor and the dreams of a French company called MDI Cat. However, the DiPietro air motor is now owned by an Australian Company, EngineAir, who gave one unit to Dean Benstead, who built a prototype motorcycle with it.

Although this area of automobile science abounds with skepticism, especially from the outsiders, Benstead says that the Yamaha WR250R he retrofitted to run on compressed air can go up to 100 kilometers on a “charge,” and that it’s only a matter of seconds to get it from empty to full, with a proper air compressor.

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