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Re:Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries by zozbot234 on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:05AM (#45013984)
Why not just build a water tower? Easier to manage, it's a proven technology and it has well-known ancillary uses beyond energy storage.
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Re:Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries by sfn42 on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:23AM (#45014192)
I don't even think the gravity battery thing is viable for individual residential power storage at all. I was just wondering why you'd assume that the 100 ton weight would be placed directly above your house given the obvious problems with that approach, and the obvious way to avoid those problems.
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