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