Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by raverbashing on Sunday August 19, 2018 @03:41AM (#17793086)

You don't need to store everything that's consumed, that's where the absurd number of plants and needed people comes from

10% of that makes more sense, even if it goes, let's say, 50% solar

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Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by kurthr on Sunday August 19, 2018 @01:00PM (#17795079)

Yeah, storing (<1%) 3 days total annual supply of electricity would be a huge over estimate... and storing 10% (35 days)would still be crazy large... I'd think the grand parent posts's numbers are high by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

As others have said,they likely would be placed near the solar plant where land is cheap and dry, rather than in neighborhoods.

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Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by extralego on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:01AM (#17793921)

Right

10% would be overkill. I don’t think we should be aiming to sacrifice our livelihoods to be concrete block stacking addicted energy horarders, but I’m not entirely against that either. It’s hard to look at a solution so tangible and transparent as concrete block stacking before ducking my head into this mangled half-commented test suite.

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