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Comment on 'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries

bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It’s Intellectual Property. Investors like IP so it can be licensed for royalties and bumps up the balance sheet.
Hydro is very geographically restricted, halving the height makes it less so.

I like the idea of using old coal mines, there’s been pilot projects in Germany and Australia but I’ve never seen them amount to anything

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roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The base material is used in oral medication applications

Calcium carbonate.

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- ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Patenting chalk water solution is like patenting milk.
  
  Oh look, I’ve made up a liquid consisting of suspended lipids, sugars, and proteins! Please detain these cows!
  
  These corporations would try to patent any molecular arrangement that contains two oxygen atoms and call it a day and they’d fight a plant for it.
  
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  - Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, dehydrogen-oxide has been proven to, in large enough quantities, be deadly to humans.
    
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- bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well spotted
  
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