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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To make solar power viable, we need a solution for overnight energy storage.

Batteries are complicated.

Do you know what isn't? Water go up. stonks-up

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The amount of energy stored from raising a very heavy block up is not that much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

About 7kwh if you replaced an elevator with a block of lead in a 10story building

So yeah not much