
In the Gobi Desert outside Golmud in the northwestern province of Qinghai, a row of white tanks stands tall in the open wilderness. Inside, air is compressed and cooled to -194 degrees Celsius (-317 Fahrenheit), and then it becomes liquid.
When released, it expands by more than 750 times, drives turbines and generates electricity.
This is the world’s largest liquid-air energy storage plant. Also known as the Super Air Power Bank, it is built by China Green Development Investment Group and…
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China to power up the world’s largest ‘super-cold air battery’ in the Gobi Desert
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