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MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] dan1101 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought this was going to be the thing where they use cheap power to raise big weights and then generate power from gravity lowering them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In general those are a bad idea. A lot of complexity for not much power storage.

Presurized caverns or pumped storage are much better version of that idea.