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A similar, common and safer mechanism is to just move water. Instead of spinning up a flywheel, water is pumped to an upper reservoir. When the power is needed,
by winrid 4y ago
A similar, common and safer mechanism is to just move water. Instead of spinning up a flywheel, water is pumped to an upper reservoir. When the power is needed, it's drained through a generator and the water can be reused when there is excess energy again.
- midoridensha 4y agoThat only works in places where you have convenient geography, which isn't that many places.
- devb 4y agoOr mines, as they've proposed in my area.