Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r...
by IshKebab on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:38AM
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Everyone overestimates how big gravitational potential energy is. That why we get companies peddling nonsense like energy harvesting pavements and speed bumps.
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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r...
by pjc50 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:17PM
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Exactly. Ultimately all energy storage has to be in one of the four fundamental fields; we've not yet harnessed the "strong interaction", the "weak interaction" gives us fission and fusion, chemical storage is effectively using electromagnetism at the atomic scale, and gravity is the weakest of them all.