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Are there any new energy storage methods on the horizon?

Electricity seems like the energy source that will be with us probably forever. There many ways to generate it, albeit not inexpensively is some cases. Storing it for "on demand use" seems to me to be the real challenge. Even if we can generate vast amounts of electricity using wind and solar, etc. those sources are unreliable. If we could hold on to what we generate it would go a long way toward a solution. This is not a revelation to anyone, but I'm curious about new ideas for storage of electricity.

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    Feb 24 2013: Plants produce usable stuff like vegetables and fruits.
    But converting food into energy (bio-fuel) is ineffective because it requires another converting process with losses.

    It's indeed better if plants could produce power rightaway.
    Maybe another idea is to create a plant who is able to produce normal crops, but are stuffed with electricall energy.
    So the energy carrier or battery is the fruit, like a pumpkin, from which the energy can be sucked out.

    Now indeed the problem is to create direct energy from photosynthesis.
    That is the hard part..
    Ah nobody listens to their parents, they all come back eventually.
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      Feb 24 2013: She's living in the basement again right now. Oddly, there's no sunlight down there, and not much energy either.

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