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Tar_alcaran, to asklemmy in What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list?

None of this is practical. You can’t build a tower like this for any real storage, it’s just not efficient. The only effective method is running a train up a mountain, or pumping water uphill. If you have to actually build a mountain a first, it’s not going to work.

Tar_alcaran, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list?

The statistic you’re looking for is energy density. It’s usually expressed as Watthour per kilo(Wh/kg). Li-ion batteries are somewhere around 300Wh/kg, or about 1 megajoule though less if you’re making it into a building.

Lifting a big weight provides you with Mass x 9.81 x Height amount of joules. So lifting 1 kg for 100m gives you 1x10x100~ 1 kilojoule.

So, to charge my 300kg, 32.000 Wh Nissan leaf battery (130Wh/kg, what you get when you actually build batteries in the real world), you would need to lift a mass of 115tons to 100 meters. So to charge a single car, at 100% efficiency, you need to lift 72 entire cars. Just so I can drive to work and back. And real-world efficiency is far below 100%, just think of the friction.

I think you’ve spotted the reason why we don’t actually build gravity batteries. Imagine lifting 115 tons to 100m, that requires a massive crane, itself weighting nearly half that. That’s why all gravity storage in existence basically consists of pumping water uphill, onto pre-existing mountains and lakes that nobody had to fabricate out of concrete and steel.

Tar_alcaran, to lemmyshitpost in De omnibus dubitandum

Caecillius est in horto

Tar_alcaran, to science_memes in On bats.

The injury rate is about 70 times higher though.

Tar_alcaran, to science_memes in On bats.

I think that says a lot about Mississippi

Tar_alcaran, to historyporn in Newfangled portable bridge, the Netherlands, 1926

Beats Fierljepping across

Tar_alcaran, to science_memes in On bats.

Traffic deaths in Thailand are 60 per 100.000 vehicles. In the Netherlands is 6. It’s 10 times a deadly…

Tar_alcaran, to memes in HOI players are built different

Declare war and immediately airdrop their major cities before they launch fighters, making sure you have enough VP to end the war in a few weeks.

Tar_alcaran, to mildlyinteresting in Random Cybertruck in a parking lot this morning.

I’m not sure it’s real, the panels aren’t even gaping.

Tar_alcaran, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

My neice asked me “Dad says you only had internet on the phone when you were my age, but I also only have internet on my phone. I don’t get it.”

That hurt me SO much.

Tar_alcaran, to memes in It's almost like a zombie movie for them

The odds of humanity wiping out humanity are pretty low. The odds of humanity wiping out human civilisation is pretty fucking high though.

Tar_alcaran, to movies in GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

The bar for Afterlife was REALLY low, but I agree.

Tar_alcaran, to memes in The Netherlands

The US probably has some rural bike paths, but I sure as shit haven’t seen any.

Tar_alcaran, to strips in [META] What about configuring @stripbot@feddit.nl to post images rather than links?

Fully agree, I mostly ignore the links

Tar_alcaran, to asklemmy in Someone picks up a guitar at a party, what song would be hype if they played?

4’33" by John Cage, on a loop.

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