Gravity Energy Storage : A very uplifting technology!

Gravity energy storage is not actually a new concept. We've been doing it with pumped hydro for more than a century. But that's very expensive to build and needs an awful lot of space. Now though, two new companies have developed systems that mimic the effect of pumped hydro by raising and lowering extremely large and heavy weights up and down over huge height distances. So, do we have yet another addition to the growing grid scale energy storage family?

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Research links
James Auger - Water Cooler Bottle experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH9-kscAqXw



Reconstrained Design Group
http://www.cccb.org/en/participants/file/reconstrained-design-group/228345



Energy Vault
https://energyvault.com/https://energyvault.com/commercial-demonstration-unit/
https://energyvault.com/energy-vault-closes-series-b-funding-with-110-million-investment-from-softbank-vision-fund/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2019/08/14/tower-of-power-110-million-investment-primes-energy-vault-to-take-on-global-energy-storage-markets/?sh=79783147913c


Gravitricity
https://www.gravitricity.com/
https://www.rechargenews.com/technology/half-the-price-of-li-ion-new-gravity-based-energy-storage-concept-heads-for-trials/2-1-866255








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