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> So, a concrete tower, comparable to a pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant would be gigantic. There's nothing to suggest that each tower would need to be co
by mmt 8y ago
> So, a concrete tower, comparable to a pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant would be gigantic.
There's nothing to suggest that each tower would need to be comparable.
My reading of the article suggests the converse, that each installation is feasible at a fraction of the size of pumped hydro [1].
Although the article does mention land availability being an issue, to say the same for pumped hydro would be a gross understatement, since the latter requires not just land but a specific (vertical) shape of land in a continguous piece.
[1] Article mentions "each 35 MWh system". I found it remarkably difficult to find the usable storage capacity of a PSH station.
- PeterisP 8y agoWell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta... lists a capacity of 44 GWh.
- mmt 8y agoThere's no citation for that, so it could be what WP calls "original research". It is, however, pretty likely the right OOM. That would put the storage capacity at around 1000x, and, if the estimates of the cranes' generating capacity elsewhere in the thread are correct, approximately proportional to that, as well.