Citations for Chapter Eight: The World's Largest Battery

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  1. Background reading on the Bath County Pumped Storage Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Station
     
  2. See Appendix, A4, on page 315 for a breakdown of power-generating capacity and costs thereof.
     
  3. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine. National Academies Press. Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads. Chapter 2: History and Status of the U.S. Road System. P. 41 https://www.nap.edu/read/11535/chapter/4
     
  4. Link to Lucid Energy corporation: http://lucidenergy.com/
     
  5. Slate magazine. “Lake Mead Before and After the Epic Drought.” E. Holthaus. 25 July, 2014. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/lake_mead_before_and_after_colorado_river_basin_losing_water_at_shocking.html.
     
  6. Engineering Toolbox. “Specific Heat of Some Liquids and Fuels.” https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/specific-heat-fluids-d_151.html
     
  7. Background reading on thermal energy storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage
     
  8. Marlow Engineering. “Technical Data Sheet for EHBMS.” https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/547732/Data_Sheets/EHBMS.pdf
     
  9. See Appendix, A4, on page 315 for a breakdown of power-generating capacity and costs thereof.
     
  10. Engineering toolbox is a fantastic site to help calculate various engineering-related formulas. In the case of water: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/energy-storage-water-d_1463.html