A novel system has been proposed that would use pressurized air and hydraulics to store and recover excess energy produced by wind turbines. Would this be the most efficient approach to energy management? What about other technologies, depending on geography, such as water-pumped storage or smart grid distributed batteries (even in electric vehicles)?

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