Unless I missed something big, it seems to me like the video doesn’t discredit using abandoned mine shafts and gravitational potential energy, just a particular company’s approach to this sort of energy storage, where they wanted to do it above ground and overcomplicated.
I don’t think the article’s claims of “enough energy to power the planet” carry any weight, but it is nice to see an innovative use to “dead” infrastructure, right?
Literally never looked into grav batteries, but what are the problems with the “tech” (if you can even call it that…)?
Not the exact same project, but the general concept is the same:
https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM
I know Thunderfoot can be controversial, but he has also made videos about the concept
Unless I missed something big, it seems to me like the video doesn’t discredit using abandoned mine shafts and gravitational potential energy, just a particular company’s approach to this sort of energy storage, where they wanted to do it above ground and overcomplicated.
I don’t think the article’s claims of “enough energy to power the planet” carry any weight, but it is nice to see an innovative use to “dead” infrastructure, right?