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Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not this shit again...

It is dumb and won't work.

[–] Oneser@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Literally never looked into grav batteries, but what are the problems with the "tech" (if you can even call it that...)?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not the exact same project, but the general concept is the same:

https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM

I know Thunderfoot can be controversial, but he has also made videos about the concept

[–] Oneser@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Unless I missed something big, it seems to me like the video doesn't discredit using abandoned mine shafts and gravitational potential energy, just a particular company's approach to this sort of energy storage, where they wanted to do it above ground and overcomplicated.

I don't think the article's claims of "enough energy to power the planet" carry any weight, but it is nice to see an innovative use to "dead" infrastructure, right?