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Re:California to open five natural gas plants to avoid black... by jcun4128 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:09AM (#28390630)
The moving mass batteries are interesting
Re:California to open five natural gas plants to avoid black... by WJW on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:24AM (#28390713)
Interesting technically but not really economically. Gravity is just not a very strong force compared to chemical bonds so you need humongous amounts of mass and a fairly large height difference to store an equivalent amount of energy as a few containers worth of batteries.

There is a reason that even though we've had the technology to make moving mass batteries for decades, the only form of such energy storage in operation today is pumped hydro.