Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/7/24 9:29 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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 Windmills and solar panels are useless for the same reason. - there is no storage able to meet the intermittency problem.
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I've heard rumors of alternative technologies for energy storage being explored besides storage of electrical energy.  One example would be a device that stores energy not as electrical energy, but instead as potential kinetic energy, storing the energy by lifting a large mass and releasing it by dropping the large mass.  That particular one is one that i doubt will ever get off the ground, but the same basic principle of converting electrical energy to some other, more convenient-to-store form of energy is behind the ideas i've seen floated around.