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Cheaper Energy From Caverns of Compressed Air

Posted by samzenpus on from the fine-until-the-earth-burps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "By using the Earth's vast underground caverns to store compressed air generated by wind farms at night, several U.S. municipalities will be 'going green' by using that stored energy to generate daytime electricity on the cheap. Engineers at a National Lab think compressed air stored in underground caverns could cut in half the cost of electricity."

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  1. Re:vast? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Earth's vast underground caverns? Oh please. If scientists actually tried doing this, it would surely bring about the end of life as we know it. The atmosphere would all be sucked up into these vast caverns leaving nothing but a vast vacuum on the surface. No, thank you!

    I really don't think that the underground caverns would be large enough to contain quite that much air.

    If they were to use your mother's vast underground vaginal canals, on the other hand...