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We all know that electricity is typically stored as potential energy
by pumping water to a higher level but this Australian project
takes that to a completely different level. In more ways than one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49202175

Maybe someone should tell Trump? (Who famously said the lights
go out when the wind stops blowing if you rely on wind turbines)

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go suck on a battery.

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@mister-moggy
Boy you really know how to come back with a stinging rebuke.
Is that all you got? I thought you were a frigging chess master.
Surely you can do better than THAT.

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@wolfgang59
Well, he also looked at a sat image of SK, NK and china, SK all lit up at night, China all lit up at night, NK totally black.
He asks 'what ocean is that'?

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@wolfgang59

Hm. Sounds like Pykrete. Or communism. Good in theory, doesn't work in practice.

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@Shallow-Blue
You sure you are in the right thread? This is about storing electricity presumably made by wind or solar.

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@sonhouse

that's why people don't buy Teslas..it's because the batteries don't last very long..

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@wolfgang59 said
We all know that electricity is typically stored as potential energy
by pumping water to a higher level but this Australian project
takes that to a completely different level. In more ways than one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49202175

Maybe someone should tell Trump? (Who famously said the lights
go out when the wind stops blowing if you rely on wind turbines)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery

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@ogb
They are much stronger pound for pound than the lead acid batteries in cars now. And more reliable, if a lead acid battery sits for a few months without a trickle charge dendrites form that ruins the battery.
They solved that problem with lithium ion batteries and newer even more powerful pound for pound batteries are in the works.

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