☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 days agoChina built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concreteboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareTropicalDingdonglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoI mean I would guess it’s for energy density not environmental savings of any kind.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoI would guess it’s because it’s likely very low cost and easy to build, but there are obvious environmental savings that fall out of it naturally.
minus-squareTropicalDingdonglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days ago savings that fall out of it naturally. sigh… Buh dim tish. On the topic, I really doubt it’s about savings at this scale, which is very much proof of concept. I mean it could be but at this stage it’s more important to show it’s potential. And for some thing that’s gonna run for thousands of cycles…
I mean I would guess it’s for energy density not environmental savings of any kind.
I would guess it’s because it’s likely very low cost and easy to build, but there are obvious environmental savings that fall out of it naturally.
sigh… Buh dim tish.
On the topic, I really doubt it’s about savings at this scale, which is very much proof of concept. I mean it could be but at this stage it’s more important to show it’s potential. And for some thing that’s gonna run for thousands of cycles…