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Yerington Pit, Anaconda Mine, Yerington, NV - inactive open-pit metal mine

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Yerington Pit, Anaconda Mine, Yerington, NV.

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k/b equivalent to 1 m of dry concrete

Retains 92% of gas pressure after 15 h storage.

Pressure Vessel

V = 5.7 x 107 m3

A = 1.3 x 106 m2

M = 1.1 x 108 t

P  = 2.5 x 106 Pa

Pressurizing Layer

VPL = 1.1 x 108 m

APL = 2.3 x 106 m2

MPL = 2.2 x 108 t

Whole Device

VT = 1.7 x 108 m3

Amap = 1.1 x 106 m2

MT = 3.4 x 108 t

Assume

ρ = 2.00 t∙m-3

ϕ = 0.2 scalar

Energy Storage Capacity

CAES     5.3 x 106 kW∙h      0.18% of US need

H2           7.4 x 107 kW∙h      2.48% of US need

 

 

Tesla Powerwalls (13.5 kW∙h at $5500 each)

CAES      391k at $2.2B

H2            5.5M at $30B

 

 

photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:

Anaconda_Copper_Mine,_Near_Yerington,_

Nevada_(15700705511).jpg#file Ken Lund, 2014 CC-BY-SA-2.0

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