These are one of the few ways (but not the only way, see article) that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities.

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It matters, of course, whether this immunity from criticism is a transient phenomenon or a permanent one.

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The gain in competitiveness from devaluation would be transient if, as is likely, wages inflated along with prices.

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The "abortive sorrows and short-winded elations" to which Fitzgerald refers in the opening quote account to most, if not all, of America's transient aspirations, practically from the country's inception.

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Publishers may have been wary of the enumeration of the phobias, some transient and some lifelong, that Wollheim suffered from.

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Horserace journalism has been somewhat unmoored from reality for years now, exaggerating the importance of transient events and personality quirks in search of a master narrative.

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