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...and using water instead of concrete. And then you get pumped storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by desman 6y ago
...and using water instead of concrete. And then you get pumped storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... which is reasonably widely used and doesn't attract as much investors' attention as this "innovation"
- kumarvvr 6y agoTo be fair, Pumped Storage is really dependent on Geography. It has downstream affects on environment due to having reservoirs where none have been and all. It's powerful, cheap and long lasting, but not easily available. One can't eat the cake and have it too.
- desman 6y agoWell, this thing also depends on geography. There aren't many places where such a construct would be easy to build: seismic situation, static stability for these enormous weights, winds (it's actually quite funny to see cranes side by side with wind turbines in their commercial)
- kumarvvr 6y agoTrue, but the choice of available places for cranes is much much higher than pumped storage.
- baybal2 6y agoJust build water towers. 100m water tower is nowhere near as an extreme engineering as this.