Re:Energy Vault – Gravitational Batteries
by treekogreen on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:37AM
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From a personnel safety standpoint (what a catastrophic failure looks like in each case),
a unit installation cost standpoint (fabricate x amounts of bricks with x tolerance in the grooves plus a crane with y units of generation on top) and finally from
a complexity standpoint of stacking stacking bricks (I assume is not just going to be a stored procedure and include some kind of error correction and monitoring).
I just cant see anything positive about this solution in the slightest. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that structure. A crane truly is a simple and well known thing but I have tangible knowledge of a large community pushback in the UK where all that was installed was a relatively small turbine on the top of a hill.
Boring and reinforcement (concrete spraying) is a tried and true technology and most importantly its out of sight.
Either may make sense given the surroundings but I don't think building up is an obvious problem