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Re:Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery by walrus01 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:16AM (#23625024)
some people are trying this:

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

I believe there's a beta test facility under construction now.

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Re:Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery by arethuza on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:03AM (#23626898)
Still pretty small compared to pumped storage - they give a value of 20 megawatt-hours, the Cruachan pumped storage scheme (which isn't particularly large) stores 7.1 gigawatt hours:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station

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Re:Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery by ashtonkem on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:17AM (#23628844)
For comparison, the liquid air battery in this article is rated at 250mWh.
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Re:Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery by arethuza on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:59AM (#23629511)
I assume you meant Mwh? :-)
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