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On Sat, 7 Dec 2024, BlueManedHawk wrote:

> On 12/7/24 9:29 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> <snip/>
>> 
>> Windmills and solar panels are useless for the same reason. - there is no 
>> storage able to meet the intermittency problem.
>> 
>> <snip/>
>
> I've heard rumors of alternative technologies for energy storage being 
> explored besides storage of electrical energy.  One example would be a device 
> that stores energy not as electrical energy, but instead as potential kinetic 
> energy, storing the energy by lifting a large mass and releasing it by 
> dropping the large mass.  That particular one is one that i doubt will ever 
> get off the ground, but the same basic principle of converting electrical 
> energy to some other, more convenient-to-store form of energy is behind the 
> ideas i've seen floated around.
>

There's the classic dam + pumps, and I also found this:

https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/cesar-seasonal-energy-storage-in-basalt/ 
.