Top 18. Best Tourist Attractions in Ithaca - New York
Top 18. Best Tourist Attractions in Ithaca - New York: Robert Treman State Park, Cornell University, Cornell Plantations, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Cayuga Lake, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca Farmers Market, Ithaca Waterfalls, Johnson Museum of Art, Cascadilla Gorge Trail, Ithaca Falls Natural Area, Sciencenter, Ports of New York, Museum of the Earth, Suspension Bridge, Ithaca Commons, State Theatre of Ithaca, Hangar Theatre,
Land of Waterfalls - Ithaca NY
Dive into a trip inside one of the greatest waterfalls around the Upstate NY area, Robert Treman Park!! These Falls, located in Ithaca, NY are among 150 other falls and gorges that are easily accessible from the city, and are especially impressive during the fall!
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Waterfall near Ithaca, New York
Waterfall near Ithaca, New York
FALL CREEK GORGE / ITHACA FALLS - SUMMER 2015 - ITHACA, NY
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We shot this video with the GoPro Hero2 again. These are two neat places in Ithaca, NY that you don't have to pay for to see and that are very accessible.
The first half of the video was filmed at Fall Creek Gorge on Cornell University's campus. The second was at the bottom of the gorge and is known as Ithaca Falls.
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Hector Falls, USA
Hector Falls is a unique falls to the area in that it is so large, broad, and in the open. Hector Falls Creek (or Logan Creek) drains a large area, including portions of the nearby Finger Lakes National Forest, USA.
Hector Falls is a beautiful and gigantic waterfall that tumbles over a broad expanse of shale and limestone rock as it makes its way down to Seneca Lake.
Coordinates:
42°25'04.9N 76°52'00.4W
Taughannock Falls State Park, NY. & Scranton, PA.
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Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Black, inter-collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the Seven Jewels. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza, as its symbol. Its aims are manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind, and its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All. Its archives are preserved at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
Chapters were chartered at Howard University and Virginia Union University in 1907. The fraternity has over 290,000 members and has been open to men of all races since 1940. Currently, there are more than 730 active chapters in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.
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The Landmarks of New York
Denver Homeless Veteran on the Criminalization of Homelessness
I often find it hard to title Invisible People videos. Jerry is a homeless veteran on the streets of Denver. He shares about the actual realities of life on the streets. Jerry has also been ticketed three times by the city of Denver for urban camping. Denver, like many cities in America, continues to pass laws that criminalize homeless people for the crime of not being able to afford rent.
Jerry is a Marine veteran. He says, I fought for these rights. I fought to be able to choose how I want to live my life if I don't want to go to a shelter. Jerry goes on to explain how shelters are either full or horrible places, so he'd rather pitch a tent. Criminalizing homelessness and giving tickets to people who have no other choice but to pitch a tent and sleep outside makes zero sense. Criminalization does nothing to end homelessness and is a complete waste of taxpayer money.
I met Jerry in the offices of Denver Homeless Out Loud [ a local advocacy group fighting for the rights of our homeless neighbors. This year, Denver Homeless Out Loud made the impossible happen by contesting Denver's urban campaign ban by getting Initiative 300 on the ballot. Initiative 300 was defeated because of the well-funded opposition, so it remains illegal for people to shelter themselves in public.
Another issue is when a homeless person enters the criminal justice system, it makes it even harder for them to find employment. Without a shower, a place to sleep, or transpiration, homelessness is hard enough to get an employer to hire you. Adding a criminal record makes it impossible. Here is the link to the post we talked about in the video: How One Citation Can Ruin A Homeless Person’s Life Forever
Homeless people in Denver asked the city for porta-potties and trash pickup, which also help the public too. Instead, the mayor of Denver responded with aggressive homeless sweeps. Cities frequently will sweep a homeless encampment and move on. According to Jerry and Denver Out Loud, Denver sweeps an area continually over 24 hours making it impossible for homeless people to return. Because there is no place for homeless people to go, this type of aggressive criminalization just displaces people and does nothing to help solve the homeless crisis.
Because of the affordable housing crisis, homelessness continues to grow. More people, even with full-time jobs, have trouble paying rent. Unless we all take action, this crisis will continue to get worse.
Your voice can help end homelessness. If we do not fix the affordable housing crisis, homelessness will continue to get worse. Click here to tweet, email, call, or Facebook your federal and state legislators to tell them ending homelessness and creating more affordable housing is a priority to you.
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Cornell University | Wikipedia audio article
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Cornell University ( kor-NEL) is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar, and Cornell Tech, a graduate program that incorporates technology, business, and creative thinking. The program moved from Google's Chelsea Building in New York City to its permanent campus on Roosevelt Island in September 2017.
Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the United States and the only one in New York. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including its agricultural and human ecology colleges as well as its industrial labor relations school. Of Cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered.As of October 2018, 58 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell University. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. Cornell counts more than 245,000 living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni include 34 Marshall Scholars, 30 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, and 14 living billionaires. The student body consists of more than 14,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 116 countries.
Speed limits in the United States by jurisdiction | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:41 1 Alabama
00:01:54 2 Alaska
00:04:29 3 American Samoa
00:05:00 4 Arizona
00:08:38 5 Arkansas
00:12:36 6 California
00:12:45 6.1 Basic speed law
00:17:44 6.2 Speed limits
00:19:42 7 Colorado
00:21:01 7.1 Night speed limits
00:21:32 8 Connecticut
00:25:02 9 Delaware
00:28:28 10 Florida
00:32:15 11 Georgia
00:37:01 12 Guam
00:37:30 13 Hawaii
00:39:24 14 Idaho
00:41:45 15 Illinois
00:44:49 16 Indiana
00:46:39 17 Iowa
00:48:08 18 Kansas
00:50:10 19 Kentucky
00:51:38 20 Louisiana
00:53:43 20.1 Other laws
00:54:46 21 Maine
00:56:34 22 Maryland
00:59:23 23 Massachusetts
01:02:25 24 Michigan
01:08:51 25 Midway Atoll
01:09:08 26 Minnesota
01:11:00 27 Mississippi
01:14:08 28 Missouri
01:16:01 28.1 Variable speed limits
01:17:18 28.2 Exceptions to the statutory limits
01:23:00 29 Montana
01:23:29 29.1 Reasonable and prudent
01:25:12 29.2 No speed limit
01:27:44 29.3 75 and 80 mph speed limits
01:29:39 30 Nebraska
01:30:48 31 Nevada
01:35:17 32 New Hampshire
01:38:02 33 New Jersey
01:41:46 34 New Mexico
01:52:40 35 New York
01:57:50 35.1 History
01:59:48 36 North Carolina
02:07:01 36.1 60 mph speed limits
02:11:36 37 North Dakota
02:13:18 38 Northern Mariana Islands
02:13:37 39 Ohio
02:16:39 40 Oklahoma
02:17:56 41 Oregon
02:19:19 41.1 Engineering studies
02:21:42 41.2 Attempts to raise speed limits
02:24:07 41.3 School speed limits
02:25:56 42 Pennsylvania
02:35:24 43 Puerto Rico
02:36:55 44 Rhode Island
02:38:29 45 South Carolina
02:42:09 46 South Dakota
02:43:33 47 Tennessee
02:48:09 48 Texas
02:49:37 48.1 Truck speed limits
02:51:10 48.2 Night speed limits
02:51:54 48.3 Environmental speed limits
02:55:19 48.4 Elimination of Dallas-Fort Worth region environmental speed limits
02:56:44 48.5 75 mph limits
02:58:22 48.6 80 and 85 mph limits
03:01:58 49 US Virgin Islands
03:03:00 50 Utah
03:05:06 50.1 80 mph speed limit
03:08:02 51 Vermont
03:09:31 52 Virginia
03:15:52 53 Wake Island
03:16:09 54 Washington
03:18:56 55 West Virginia
03:21:04 56 Wisconsin
03:24:20 57 Wyoming
03:26:11 58 See also
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Speed limits in the United States vary depending on jurisdiction, with 75 to 80 mph (120 to 130 km/h) common in the Western United States and 65 to 75 mph (100 to 120 km/h) common in the Eastern United States. States may also set special speed limits for trucks and night travel along with minimum speed limits. The highest speed limit in the country is 85 mph (140 km/h), which is posted on a single stretch of tollway in rural Texas.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:54 1 History
00:03:02 1.1 1824–1900
00:06:31 1.2 Since 1900
00:11:22 2 Campus
00:12:16 2.1 1824–1905
00:12:53 2.2 Ricketts Campus, 1906–1935
00:14:18 2.3 Post-war expansion, 1946–1960
00:16:16 2.4 Modern campus, since 1961
00:19:17 2.5 Other campuses
00:20:09 3 Academics
00:22:12 3.1 Rensselaer Plan
00:25:53 3.2 Faculty
00:26:02 3.3 Rankings
00:29:02 4 Research and development
00:33:55 5 Students
00:36:50 6 Greek life
00:40:29 7 Athletics
00:42:13 7.1 Ice hockey (men's)
00:44:44 7.2 Ice hockey (women's)
00:45:40 7.3 Lacrosse (men's)
00:46:12 7.4 Baseball
00:46:43 7.5 American football
00:47:36 7.6 Athletic facilities
00:49:49 8 Student life
00:53:40 8.1 RPI songs
00:54:52 8.2 First Year Experience and CLASS programs
00:56:21 9 Notable alumni
01:01:30 10 See also
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (), or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution in Troy, New York, with additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
The institute was established in 1824 by Stephen van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the application of science to the common purposes of life and is described as the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world. Numerous American colleges or departments of applied sciences were modeled after Rensselaer. Built on a hillside, RPI's 265-acre (107 ha) campus overlooks the city of Troy and the Hudson River and is a blend of traditional and modern architecture. The institute operates an on‑campus business incubator and the 1,250-acre (510 ha) Rensselaer Technology Park.Today, RPI is organized into six main schools which contain 37 departments, with emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business and management, information technology, the sciences, design, and liberal arts. RPI's Science MBA, Engineering MBA and Master of Science in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship are identified as highly inventive and innovative by the Peterson's guide. RPI is ranked 49th out of all universities in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is also highly recognized internationally for its engineering and computing programs, and has been ranked within the top six universities in the United States for highest median earnings of recent alumni.As of 2017, RPI's faculty and alumni include six members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, six National Medal of Technology winners, five National Medal of Science winners, eight Fulbright Scholarship recipients, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics; in addition, 86 faculty or alumni are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 17 of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, eight of the National Academy of Medicine, and nine of the National Academy of Inventors. Research projects include the areas of Astrobiology and Astrophysics, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Energy, Environment, and Smart Systems (EES), Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Computational Science and Engineering, and Cognitive Engineering.
Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States. He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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Edmund Muskie | Wikipedia audio article
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Edmund Muskie
00:03:43 1 Early life and education
00:07:15 1.1 Marriage and children
00:08:42 2 U.S. Navy Reserve, 1942–1945
00:11:01 3 Maine House of Representatives
00:14:29 4 Governor of Maine, 1955–1959
00:14:41 4.1 Gubernatorial campaign
00:17:24 4.2 First term
00:19:23 4.3 Second term
00:22:39 5 United States Senate, 1959–1980
00:22:51 5.1 Elections and campaigns
00:24:00 5.1.1 Election eve speech
00:27:11 5.2 First and second term
00:32:13 5.3 Third and fourth term
00:36:35 6 Campaigns for the White House
00:36:45 6.1 1968 presidential election
00:36:56 6.1.1 Campaign
00:38:37 6.2 1972 presidential election
00:38:48 6.2.1 Background and primaries
00:40:37 6.2.2 Canuck letter
00:42:39 6.3 1976 presidential election
00:43:09 7 U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-81
00:43:53 7.1 Draft Muskie movement
00:45:12 7.2 Afghanistan
00:45:58 7.3 Soviet Union
00:47:04 7.4 Iran hostage crisis
00:48:37 8 Return to law and the commission
00:49:03 8.1 Tower Commission
00:50:17 9 Death and funeral
00:52:21 10 Legacy
00:52:30 10.1 Historical evaluations
00:57:38 10.2 Public and political image
01:00:10 10.3 Honors and memorials
01:04:18 11 See also
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- Socrates
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.
Born in Rumford, Maine to Polish parents, Muskie graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, and Cornell University in Ithaca. He worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Upon his return, Muskie served in the Maine State Legislature from 1946 to 1951 against heavy Republican opposition. Despite an unsuccessful bid for the mayoralty of Waterville, he was elected the 64th Governor of Maine in an upset victory as its first Roman Catholic in 1954. Although elected as a reform Governor, Muskie split from his mandate; he amended its constitution multiple times to consolidate power, suspended the as Maine goes, so goes the nation doctrine, pressed aggressive economic expansionism and instated environmental provisions. Muskie's actions severed a nearly 100-year Republican stronghold, led to the political insurgency of the Maine Democrats, and pushed Maine into the Golden Age of Capitalism. He used his increased public presence to gain a seat in the United States Senate representing his home state.
His legislative accomplishments during his career as a Senator facilitated a vast expansion of modern liberalism in the United States. He fathered the 1960s environmental movement which culminated in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and Clean Water Act of 1972—hallmarks of international environmental policy. A supporter of the civil rights movement, Muskie rallied support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and tapered Richard Nixon's Imperial Presidency by advancing New Federalism. Muskie ran alongside Hubert Humphrey against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, only to lose by 0.7 percentage points (42.72% vs. 43.42%), one of the narrowest margins in the history of the United States. He would go on to run in the 1972 presidential election where he secured 1.84 million votes in the primaries coming in fourth out of 15 contesters. The release of the controversial Canuck letter derailed his campaign.
After the election, he returned to the Senate where he gave the 1976 State of the Union Response. Muskie served as first chairman of the new Senate Budget Committee from 1975 to 1980 where he established the United States budget process. Upon his retirement from the Senat ...
CSS Lunch Series | Austin Grant Long on Nuclear Forces in the 21st Century
The United States is embarking on an extensive modernization of its nuclear forces, as are Russia and China. This talk will provide an overview of these modernizations and why they matter in the 21st century.
About the Speaker:
Austin Long is a nuclear policy advisor serving in the Joint Staff J5 (Strategy, Plans, and Policy) Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Policy Division. Dr. Long was previously a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was an analyst and adviser to the U.S. military in Iraq (2007-2008) and Afghanistan (2011 and 2013). Dr. Long’s research has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Orbis, the Journal of Cybersecurity, and Survival. He is also the author of The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the United States and United Kingdom (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016). He received his B.S. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium, Panel 3: Power, Capital, and People
Panel 3 Participants:
Seng Kuan, moderator
Edward Eigen: “I. M. Pei and the ‘Big Plan’: The Several Lives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum”
André Bideau: “Between the Superblock and the Pyramid. I. M. Pei and Araldo Cossutta at La Défense”
Cole Roskam: “The Fragrant Hill Hotel: Reassessing the Politics of Tradition and Abstraction in China’s Early Reform Era”
Shirley Surya: “Pei's Office and Singapore's Urban Core: Corporate Architecture, Symbolic Aestheticization and Economic Pragmatism”
Kellogg Wong: “I. M. Pei & Partners, the Pei Team, and Singapore”
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage points. Organized by the Harvard GSD with M+, Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most celebrated yet under-theorized architects of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although Pei’s six-decade career is mostly identified with his unwavering interest in cultural synthesis and the power of pure geometrical form, his modes of practice demand further investigation of their intertwinement with the multiple historical and discursive moments of modern architecture. The two-day symposium will include panel discussions and scholarly presentations that showcase new research on Pei’s manifold contributions to the built environment. Notable alumni from Pei’s office will discuss the emergence of a new kind of architectural practice in the postwar era. Among the topics to be addressed in the paper sessions are technological innovations with concrete, the glass curtain wall, and structural designs; Pei’s longstanding affinities for China’s landscape and vernacular traditions; his legacy on major urban spaces in Boston and other cities around the world; and the increasingly global and transnational conditions of architectural production that Pei successfully navigated. Organized with M+, the new museum for visual culture being built in Hong Kong, this symposium is part of a yearlong celebration of the 100th birthday of Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei MArch ’46. Both I. M. and his wife, Eileen Pei GSD ’44, studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as did their sons Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, AB ’68, MArch ’72, and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, AB ’72, MArch ’76. Pei was also an assistant professor of architecture at the GSD. In March the GSD held a panel discussion, led by Harry Cobb AB ’47, MArch ’49, which focused on the formative years of I. M. Pei’s career as well as some of his special friendships, influences, and projects.
A second symposium, co-organized by M+ and the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will be held in Hong Kong on December 14-15.
These two symposia are made possible with the generous support of the C Foundation.
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Energy storage | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:33 1 History
00:01:42 1.1 Recent history
00:03:08 2 Methods
00:03:18 2.1 Outline
00:03:32 2.2 Mechanical storage
00:04:04 2.2.1 Hydroelectricity
00:05:00 2.2.2 Pumped-storage
00:06:29 2.2.3 Compressed air
00:08:24 2.2.4 Flywheel energy storage
00:09:59 2.2.5 Solid Mass Gravitational Energy Storage
00:11:06 2.3 Thermal storage
00:11:23 2.3.1 Sensible heat thermal energy storage
00:13:07 2.3.2 Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES)
00:14:29 2.4 Electrochemical
00:14:38 2.4.1 Rechargeable battery
00:17:21 2.4.1.1 Flow battery
00:18:06 2.4.2 Supercapacitor
00:19:47 2.5 Other chemical
00:19:56 2.5.1 Power to gas
00:21:01 2.5.1.1 Hydrogen
00:23:44 2.5.1.2 Methane
00:25:15 2.5.2 Power to liquid
00:25:52 2.5.3 Biofuels
00:26:55 2.5.3.1 Aluminum
00:28:02 2.5.4 Boron, silicon, and zinc
00:28:19 2.5.5 Other chemical
00:28:45 2.6 Electrical methods
00:28:54 2.6.1 Capacitor
00:31:21 2.6.2 Superconducting magnetics
00:32:42 3 Applications
00:32:52 3.1 Mills
00:33:20 3.2 Home energy storage
00:36:01 3.3 Grid electricity and power stations
00:36:13 3.3.1 Renewable energy storage
00:40:20 3.4 Air conditioning
00:43:03 3.5 Transport
00:44:00 3.6 Electronics
00:44:33 4 Use cases
00:45:01 5 Storage capacity
00:45:37 6 Economics
00:47:53 7 Research
00:48:03 7.1 Germany
00:49:16 7.2 United States
00:50:59 7.3 United Kingdom
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Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.
A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery.
Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential, electricity, elevated temperature, latent heat and kinetic.
Energy storage involves converting energy from forms that are difficult to store to more conveniently or economically storable forms.
Some technologies provide short-term energy storage, while others can endure for much longer.
Bulk energy storage is currently dominated by hydroelectric dams, both conventional as well as pumped.
Common examples of energy storage are the rechargeable battery, which stores chemical energy readily convertible to electricity to operate a mobile phone, the hydroelectric dam, which stores energy in a reservoir as gravitational potential energy, and ice storage tanks, which store ice frozen by cheaper energy at night to meet peak daytime demand for cooling.
Fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline store ancient energy derived from sunlight by organisms that later died, became buried and over time were then converted into these fuels.
Food (which is made by the same process as fossil fuels) is a form of energy stored in chemical form.
Power storage | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:37 1 History
00:01:46 1.1 Recent history
00:03:15 2 Methods
00:03:24 2.1 Outline
00:03:38 2.2 Mechanical storage
00:04:12 2.2.1 Hydroelectricity
00:05:09 2.2.2 Pumped-storage
00:06:42 2.2.3 Compressed air
00:08:42 2.2.4 Flywheel energy storage
00:10:20 2.2.5 Solid Mass Gravitational Energy Storage
00:11:29 2.3 Thermal storage
00:11:46 2.3.1 Sensible heat thermal energy storage
00:13:33 2.3.2 Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES)
00:14:57 2.4 Electrochemical
00:15:06 2.4.1 Rechargeable battery
00:17:55 2.4.1.1 Flow battery
00:18:42 2.4.2 Supercapacitor
00:20:28 2.5 Other chemical
00:20:37 2.5.1 Power to gas
00:21:44 2.5.1.1 Hydrogen
00:24:32 2.5.1.2 Methane
00:26:05 2.5.2 Power to liquid
00:26:44 2.5.3 Biofuels
00:27:49 2.5.3.1 Aluminum
00:29:00 2.5.4 Boron, silicon, and zinc
00:29:17 2.5.5 Other chemical
00:29:43 2.6 Electrical methods
00:29:53 2.6.1 Capacitor
00:32:25 2.6.2 Superconducting magnetics
00:33:50 3 Applications
00:34:00 3.1 Mills
00:34:29 3.2 Home energy storage
00:37:16 3.3 Grid electricity and power stations
00:37:27 3.3.1 Renewable energy storage
00:41:44 3.4 Air conditioning
00:44:31 3.5 Transport
00:45:29 3.6 Electronics
00:46:03 4 Use cases
00:46:33 5 Storage capacity
00:47:09 6 Economics
00:49:34 7 Research
00:49:43 7.1 Germany
00:50:59 7.2 United States
00:52:46 7.3 United Kingdom
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Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.
A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery.
Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential, electricity, elevated temperature, latent heat and kinetic.
Energy storage involves converting energy from forms that are difficult to store to more conveniently or economically storable forms.
Some technologies provide short-term energy storage, while others can endure for much longer.
Bulk energy storage is currently dominated by hydroelectric dams, both conventional as well as pumped.
Common examples of energy storage are the rechargeable battery, which stores chemical energy readily convertible to electricity to operate a mobile phone, the hydroelectric dam, which stores energy in a reservoir as gravitational potential energy, and ice storage tanks, which store ice frozen by cheaper energy at night to meet peak daytime demand for cooling.
Fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline store ancient energy derived from sunlight by organisms that later died, became buried and over time were then converted into these fuels.
Food (which is made by the same process as fossil fuels) is a form of energy stored in chemical form.