New materials and ways to store electric energy

[hugo_faurand]

Hello everyone !

I'm Hugo. I'm a french high school student. This year I've a project on new way to store electricity and their materials.I've done researches on super capacitors. But I've found only that "new way" to store electric energy. And for the material part, I don't know what I can search. So, could you help me ? Do you know other way to store electric energy except battery and super capacitor ? And could you tell me things like how materials are chosen for battery, why a material is a good conductor... ?
Thanks in advance.

Hugo

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to the PF, Hugo. Fun project.

What search terms have you been using in Google so far? I'd avoid the qualifier "new", and focus on "alternative" energy storage means. That will give you *lots* of things to read about, and may help you to start thinking about what might potentially be used in the future.

Some such things are hydroelectric energy storage (why is it so efficient and practical?), fuel cell technology coupled with <what?>, distributed load shedding battery technology (who might be the major corporate players in this emerging technology?), and so on.

Do that searching and reading, and post what you find and your thoughts about what you have read... Thanks.

 

[anorlunda]

One reason that electricity is so popular, is that it can be easily converted to or from other forms of energy. A battery is one example. Pumped hydro, where we pump water to the top of a hill then let it run down later generating electricity.

Your search should be broader; "energy storage" rather than "electricity storage."