Talk:Hydraulic accumulator

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correction: hooke's law is linear. the restorative force is directly proportional to excursion.

[edit] Pumped Reservoir Storage?

Doesn't pumped reservoir storage count as a hydraulic accumulator? (It would be basically a dead weight/raised weight accumulator, except that all of the dead weight is that of the fluid itself.) Lchiarav 05:25, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

See also Jean Mercier. Scottcmu 16:21, 31 October 2006 No that is not. An accumulator should be able to store a considerable amount of energy. and a oil tank does hardly store energy. Jeff 11:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I see that a spring type hydraulic accumulator is mentioned. I wonder whether this type of accumulator was ever used. Anyway, I do not know one application. Reason is that the amount of energy that can be stored in a spring driven hydraulic accumulator is neglectible. So it is better to delete this item. Jeff 11:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)