To make solar power viable, we need a solution for overnight energy storage.

Batteries are complicated.

Do you know what isn’t? Water go up.

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What about a weight and a skyscraper?

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Explain.

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Freight elevator shaft (boring, no one uses anymore), biiiiiiigggg grand piano, cartoon cat on massive, convoluted, downward-sloping treadmill

Don’t worry he likes it :3

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Will his teeth turn into piano keys following the imminent collision? What song will they play?

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The amount of energy stored from raising a very heavy block up is not that much.

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About 7kwh if you replaced an elevator with a block of lead in a 10story building

So yeah not much

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