Pointlessness is. If you want to maximize pointlessness, Energy Vault is right there. But defrauding investors doesn't seem like a great choice to enable. May

Pointlessness is. If you want to maximize pointlessness, Energy Vault is right there. But defrauding investors doesn't seem like a great choice to enable. Maybe it would be better to do what might help avert global civilization collapse, thermonuclear war, and mass starvation? Investing in practical energy-storage tech factory build-out, solar farms co-sited on reservoirs and pastures, cost-effective hydrogen and ammonia synthesis tech are all overwhelmingly better uses, and can all be equally as cool.