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Cool! I'd only heard of it in the context of solar/wind power, but it appears quite widely used.

Not quite wind/solar but look at Turlough Hill power station in Co Wicklow. Quite a spectacular project from the 1960s that uses its own off peak power to pump the water back into the reservoirs on the mountain. There's a great series of six or so videos up on youtube, from an RTE program.

But for the fun of it, and some forum relevant music footage : Turlough Hill 40th anniversary Gala Concert,

Nanohedron wrote:But this is speculation. I'm happy to be proven wrong, because I value knowledge and facts. But if nobody's tried it yet, somebody ought to ask: Okay, then - why not? Omelettes and eggs, and all that.

This.

benhall.1 wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:Omelettes and eggs, and all that.

This.

It's a good thing he focused on ingredient quality and not the finished product: Milk or water? Browned or unbrowned? French, or everyone else? - because then the interview would never have ended; it already fast became a drag as it is.

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:Omelettes and eggs, and all that.

This.

It's a good thing he focused on ingredient quality and not the finished product: Milk or water? Browned or unbrowned? French, or everyone else? - because then the interview would never have ended; it already fast became a drag as it is.

How can you say that was a drag? That was poetry that was; sheer poetry.

benhall.1 wrote:How can you say that was a drag? That was poetry that was; sheer poetry.

The dude was glibly talking out of his backside. You could see he knew right away that he'd stepped into a leaky boat, and had to start bailing fast. In my case, boredom won out over Schadenfreude.

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:How can you say that was a drag? That was poetry that was; sheer poetry.

The dude was glibly talking out of his backside. You could see he knew right away that he'd stepped into a leaky boat, and had to start bailing fast. In my case, boredom won out over Schadenfreude.

He had more some years later ...

benhall.1 wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:How can you say that was a drag? That was poetry that was; sheer poetry.

The dude was glibly talking out of his backside. You could see he knew right away that he'd stepped into a leaky boat, and had to start bailing fast. In my case, boredom won out over Schadenfreude.

He had more some years later ...

Hmm. He clearly has a working theory.

I had to look the guy up, because I didn't know anything about him. I'm kind of over "colorful" people right now.

This is one of my favourite energy storage ideas: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concret ... re-energy/

KevinNot10 wrote:This is one of my favourite energy storage ideas: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concret ... re-energy/

Compelling. I think it needs to take stack-destabilizing events like earthquakes into account, though.