• Flambo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    fwiw, chemical energy batteries (aka typical batteries) are also potential energy batteries.

    I don’t know a simple or correct label that differentiates batteries whose potential energy is gravity-dependent from batteries whose potential energy is chemical-reaction-dependent, but the concept of gravity-based energy storage absolutely is cool as heck.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s weird, they are called gravity batteries but there’s options for other versions coming down the pipeline.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Yes, they are cool and we have lots of them. There was plenty of oil from the USSR but some rather forward-thinking measures were made during the Cold War to ensure our energy self-reliance in case of a global conflict. Odd that Poland doesn’t even though they have similar amounts of coal.