This seems to be a new idea and by some rough estimates it could be really efficient.
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What do you think? Is it feasible or bullshit?
Crazy Energy storage
Camden Powell
Jayden Adams
So a water tower, but underground.
Benjamin Morales
Squishy Tower Power
D:
Jack Gomez
yea kind of, but you get A LOT more energy per unt of volume
Kayden James
Hay guys, all we need is a battery easily 10 times the size of the city!
James Young
"new", "crazy"
I've been telling that for years.
Xavier Anderson
Yay, this is bullshit, there are better ways.
Matthew Bailey
Wouldn't pumping the water up to the city use any energy that was created by it flowing into the tank?
Easton Ward
>new idea
It's been around forever you fucking retard. My dad worked on one in the USSR back in the 1970s for fuck's sake.
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Ryder Cooper
Seems pretty reasonable, better than solar using molten salt im told in refrence to solar, im not aware of anything close to a large scake model though.