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Company Developing up to 10GWh of energy storage in state using its patented A-CAES technology. Advanced-Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) is a long-duration energy storage system that combines components from existing energy systems to create an advanced, emissions-free storage system that is low-impact, cost-effective, and can be located where the grid needs it. This innovative use of proven technologies provides a scalable, reliable and bankable energy storage solution for utilities and regulators.

With gas prices rising and the massive drought making ethanol a tough sell as a gas alternative, India's Tata Motors has hit on the perfect time to debut the Airpod, a small urban vehicle that, as its name suggests, runs on air. If you don't know much about how regular cars use fuel, natural gas or, alternatively, hydrogen is compressed in a pressurized tank, hence the 'pssf' sound when you unscrew the gas cap. Now think about air rifles. If you had the bad luck to grow up with an older brother obsessed with using you as a target (or...

The Air Car, made by French company MDI, could be launched by Tata Motors in India by 2010-11. Replying to an email query, the French company said, "We will release in France the first cars for the Air France company before June 2009. The cars will be available for the public at the end of 2009." Mumbai-based Tata Motors, India's third biggest car manufacturer had signed a licensing agreement with MDI for manufacturing the car in India. The agreement between the two envisages development and refinement of the technology. The Air Car doesn't require traditional fuel options like petrol, diesel,...

Most of us have gotten e-mails about bizarre stories that are known as urban legends. Sometimes they’re totally bogus. Sometimes there’s a shred of truth to them, but the story is mostly exaggeration. Recently, though, I got one that proved to be true, completely true, terribly true. It was about a police officer in Ohio who used cans of compressed air to blow the dust off computer parts. The canned air isn’t expensive, but it isn’t cheap, $10 for a pack of three cans, so the man was a little upset when he found that his son and his friends...