Energy Vault -BUSTED!
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Channel: Thunderf00t
Views: 580,653
Rating: 4.8306851 out of 5
Keywords: energy, vault, busted, pump, storage, concrete, crane, lift, scam, pseudoscience, pseudo, science, physics, engineering, engineer
Id: NIhCuzxNvv0
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Length: 23min 52sec (1432 seconds)
Published: Mon Aug 05 2019
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While thuderffoot does make several good points about this method of gravity storage, his suggestion that water based gravity storage works better and cheaper assumes that the power you're generating is in an area of the world with a plentiful water and mountains. Not every place has the Cascades Mountains of North America.
Some places are deserts with lots of sun and little water.