2023
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2023.1249458
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Battery Earth: using the subsurface at Boulby underground laboratory to investigate energy storage technologies

Katherine A. Daniels,
Jon F. Harrington,
Andrew C. Wiseall
et al.

Abstract: Renewable energy provides a low-carbon alternative to power generation in the UK. However, the resultant supply varies on daily, weekly and seasonal cycles, such that for green energies to be fully exploited new grid-scale energy storage systems must be implemented. Two pilot facilities in Germany and the United States have demonstrated the potential of the Earth as a battery to store compressed air, using off-peak surplus energy. Natural accumulations of salt (halite deposits) in the UK represent a large and … Show more

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“…These features make underground laboratories crucial locations for research across microphysics, astrophysics, cosmology, and geoscience [1]. Over the past decades, numerous international underground laboratories have been constructed and continuously developed, including SNO in Canada [2], Kamioka in Japan [3], Modane and LSBB in France [4,5], Boulby in the UK [6], Baksan in Russia [7,8], and SarGrav in Italy [9,10], among others. These underground laboratories range in volume from a few hundred to thousands of cubic meters, with vertical rock cover thicknesses from a few hundred meters to over two thousand meters.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These features make underground laboratories crucial locations for research across microphysics, astrophysics, cosmology, and geoscience [1]. Over the past decades, numerous international underground laboratories have been constructed and continuously developed, including SNO in Canada [2], Kamioka in Japan [3], Modane and LSBB in France [4,5], Boulby in the UK [6], Baksan in Russia [7,8], and SarGrav in Italy [9,10], among others. These underground laboratories range in volume from a few hundred to thousands of cubic meters, with vertical rock cover thicknesses from a few hundred meters to over two thousand meters.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These features make underground laboratories crucial locations for research across microphysics, astrophysics, cosmology, and geoscience [1]. Over the past decades, numerous international underground laboratories have been constructed and continuously developed, including SNO in Canada [2], Kamioka in Japan [3], Modane and LSBB in France [4,5], Boulby in the UK [6], Baksan in Russia [7,8], and SarGrav in Italy [9,10], among others. These underground laboratories have volumes ranging from a few hundred to thousands of cubic meters, with vertical rock cover thicknesses ranging from a few hundred meters to over 2,000 meters.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%