Comment on Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWe have used water before lithium, and it isn’t bad at all.
Not so great in a flat dry desert though. Pump storage is great when there is lots of water and a naturally occurring elevation, but there’s lots of places on Earth that don’t have that, but do have energy to store.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Hopefully you are free not to live there…
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Middle east would like a word with you.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Middle-East involves plenty of mountainous areas, and the reason many of those are arid is because water, ahem, flows down.
Also in a flat dry desert one can replace pumping water up with raising heavy things up. I think. More wear though.
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not what I was replying to my dude.