What a grump! Cliffs and mesas afford the opportunity of building rails. Anyway, and the end he points out that pumped hydro is already an option. And yet we only have about 2.1% energy storage performed that way.
________________________________ From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 9:29 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!?? This was some pretty funny coverage: The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM On 1/4/22 07:00, Marcus Daniels wrote: > There’s a cliff behind the house that ought to work! At LANL there were > these motivational Giving Campaign signs resembling thermometers. Can we get > to N million $$? Here you could look at the giant rocks suspended in the air. > Can the solar PUC get to the top of the hill with 100 tons? > > https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/ > <https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/> > -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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