• stoy
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    9 months ago

    Not this shit again…

    It is dumb and won’t work.

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      9 months ago

      Literally never looked into grav batteries, but what are the problems with the “tech” (if you can even call it that…)?

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        9 months ago

        Not the exact same project, but the general concept is the same:

        https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM

        I know Thunderfoot can be controversial, but he has also made videos about the concept

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          9 months ago

          Unless I missed something big, it seems to me like the video doesn’t discredit using abandoned mine shafts and gravitational potential energy, just a particular company’s approach to this sort of energy storage, where they wanted to do it above ground and overcomplicated.

          I don’t think the article’s claims of “enough energy to power the planet” carry any weight, but it is nice to see an innovative use to “dead” infrastructure, right?