India will build gravity batteries - an alternative to hydroelectric power
Mankind is in a constant search for renewable energy sources and sometimes comes up with rather unusual design decisions.
The American company Energy Vault has developed a new technology receiving and storing electricity based on the use of gravity.
The gravity towers that the company creates work on the same principle as hydropower plants. Only in the towers do concrete blocks perform the function of falling water.
A controlled drop in the blocks drives a generator that generates electricity. The company’s website says that the gravitational battery is capable of storing from 10 to 35 MW hours.
By their versatility, Energy Vault gravity towers can give odds to the popular and widely used wind technology. Towers, like windmills, need only a place where they can be placed, but they absolutely do not need the wind, on which wind power stations depend.
The technology of the American company has already aroused worldwide interest. Thus, Energy Vault reports that the famous Indian multinational company Tata and the Mexican construction company CEMEX became the first customers ready to install gravitational towers.
The American company Energy Vault has developed a new technology receiving and storing electricity based on the use of gravity.
The gravity towers that the company creates work on the same principle as hydropower plants. Only in the towers do concrete blocks perform the function of falling water.
A controlled drop in the blocks drives a generator that generates electricity. The company’s website says that the gravitational battery is capable of storing from 10 to 35 MW hours.
By their versatility, Energy Vault gravity towers can give odds to the popular and widely used wind technology. Towers, like windmills, need only a place where they can be placed, but they absolutely do not need the wind, on which wind power stations depend.
The technology of the American company has already aroused worldwide interest. Thus, Energy Vault reports that the famous Indian multinational company Tata and the Mexican construction company CEMEX became the first customers ready to install gravitational towers.
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