Actually, see the fourm posts on Mana Pools.

Eventually, the author guy will post the stuff on mana pools, he's pulled it off some old Zip drives where it had been stranded for the last decade plus.

There are definitely ways to store mana, wizards do it all the time to power magical devices. A good percentage of jewelry that wizards wear are actually simply mana pools rather than traditional "Zap!" magic items. They are reserves to hold mana beyond what they personally have, and they can tap it via their wizard links to the pools.

And there are mana wheels that can suck mana out of the environment. But yes, those do require animus infusions to work.