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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
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?