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Old 06-22-2022, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by chrisreedrules View Post

As for green energy and EV’s, I think they’re good ideas. I just think there needs to be some reality injected into the conversation. We aren’t going to see any meaningful shift away from fossil fuels for the next 20-30 years. Many of us will likely be gone by then. Personally I think solar power is the future, I tjust think the way we currently harvest it and store it will have to be transformed. Maybe space-based solar arrays and a way to beam the energy back to earth to be stored in large batteries? Hell I don't know. It all sounds like science fiction, but as another poster above pointed out, so was air travel and nuclear power at one point.


Im intrigued by the concept of gravity batteries. What an elegant solution:

Mechanical
https://youtu.be/dQSOj-LfaSE

NYSE: NRGV
(Way too expensive right now)

Hydraulic
https://heindl-energy.com/
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