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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The Company's comprehensive offerings include proprietary gravity-based storage, battery storage, and green hydrogen energy storage technologies.

It looks like they used lithium ion batteries for this but I'm not confident in that. I only poked around their website a little, tho. I'm curious what gravity based would look like. Maybe I should poke around more!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Isn't gravity based the thing where the mechanism is, crudely, a rock tied to a rope gets lifted, then the mechanism locks it, and when energy is needed the lock releases, dropping the rock and spinning the turbine?

Takes more energy to lift the rock, but the lock costs almost no energy, and when energy depletes, the lock releases, drops the rock, and offers reserve energy.

Basically all electricity generation, but a rock and a rope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe? I've also read about using water storage. I really don't know much about using gravity.

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