• zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Give it a few years and I’ve got my hopes up for batteries.

    The calculations showed the absurdity in gravity storage today, not batteries in the future.

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      1 month ago

      Gravity just isn’t a good store of energy relative to chemical and nuclear alternatives.

      It’s a simple method for storing energy but not an efficient method. That’s why the human body uses ATP instead of a bunch of pebbles that get lifted to our heads and dropped to our perineum.

      But hey, we’ll always have Dams. And tidal generators are gaining momentum. They’re basically gravity batteries.