Batteries can come in all shapes and sizes but have you ever heard of a battery the size of a skyscraper? Introducing the newest technology in energy storage the Energy Vault.
Cranes are a familiar part of practically any city skyline, but one in the Swiss City of Ticino, near the Italian border, would stand out anywhere: It has six arms. This 110-meter-high starfish of the skyline isn’t intended for construction. It’s meant to prove that renewable energy can be stored by hefting heavy loads and dispatched by releasing them.
This energy storage concept By the Swedish company Energy Vault uses the simplistic scientific principle of the conservation of energy as an ingenious method of storing energy. The layout for the vault consists of one large tower with a six-armed crane on top. The crane picks up blocks of concrete and stacks them around its base surrounding the tower. The energy that is used to pick up the concrete is stored as gravitational potential energy, and when it is needed the Crain simply lowers the block down and the energy is transferred to kinetic and then to electrical energy.
This technology could revolutionaries sustainable energy storage, as the tower has zero-emission, and it is such a simple principle yet it is extremely efficient. Could we see one of these towers in New Zealand sometime in the future.
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