X-Prize Lab @ MIT ~ Energy Storage Challenges

I was very pleased to just listen in on the X-Prize Lab @ MIT's prize design class final presentations. This Fall 2009 the theme is Energy Storage. Interdisciplinary teams of students from all around the Institute proposed four somewhat different ideas...

• Power To The People -- Distributed home-scale storage
  
• REStore -- Grid-scale storage for supporting renewables
• Clean Aviation -- Aviation storage for green flight applications
• Rural Power -- Affordable storage for the developing world

Also check out this map of the energy storage technology domain...