MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks - eviltoast

Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

  • dan1101@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought this was going to be the thing where they use cheap power to raise big weights and then generate power from gravity lowering them.

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      1 year ago

      In general those are a bad idea. A lot of complexity for not much power storage.

      Presurized caverns or pumped storage are much better version of that idea.