Here’s another one of those clean energy concepts that falls under the category: “will ‘work,’ but would be so ridiculously expensive that it will never be built.” It’s an idea in the energy storage space that’s a variant of “advanced …
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Concept in Energy Storage Features New Idea, Old Technology
Here’s a novel concept in energy storage: a wind turbine integrated with its own mass that can be moved against gravity to generate and store potential energy which is then converted via a generator to electricity when required. It’s akin …
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Concept in Energy Storage
A fellow in Sudan wrote to ask me about energy storage by compressing a large spring, pointing out, quite correctly, that the force associated with compressing a spring is a function of the distance over which the force is applied, …
