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Perhaps they could lower the total cost if they recaptured compressed air as seawater reenters the gates during the sinking process. There are unavoidable loss
by FriedPickles 3y ago
Perhaps they could lower the total cost if they recaptured compressed air as seawater reenters the gates during the sinking process.
There are unavoidable losses to heat, but if they did this it wouldn't be too different from "deep sea pumped storage" concepts.
- jaclaz 3y agoThere would be the need of huge (leakproof) containers for the compressed air recovered, from a back of the envelope calculation, we are talking of 100,000-150,000 cubic meters of compressed air.