Energy Storage

When I first came across the click-bait garbage at left, I was reminded of an earlier post I wrote on the subject of the history of this form of energy storage.

Various countries in Europe began using the potential energy of masses that have been lifted against the force of gravity to generate electricity since the 19th Century.  Michael Faraday discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in the 1830s, and the commercialization of electricity started in the early 1880s.

Interestingly, this form of energy storage started long before electricity came on the scene.  Perhaps a thousand years before, the folks of the day converted this stored potential energy into mechanical energy to grind corn, pump water, mill wheat, etc.