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China's 40-story gravity batteries threaten lithium's energy reign (interestingengineering.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Finding the correct landscape is not impossible, but it's definitely not an easy thing to do. If you can deploy a gravity battery directly next to the industrial area of a city, you have a lot of advantages. Moreso if you can charge that gravity battery from a river flowing past the industrial area.

Edit: same could be said for deploying a chemical battery

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a very good point.