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It's just an example from the comment I replied to was using; I agree it's not a very feasible thing to do. But I used it to illustrate the difference in cost between that and pumped hydro using natural reservoirs. The point being here that you'd need a stupidly large amount of water towers to come close to the amount of energy you can store in a pumped hydro reservoir

Whether it's a water tower, a big crane, or whatever that holds the mass that you then use to drive a generator. You have to build it or use nature to have some natural height difference. Building infrastructure like that is expensive. So nature is preferable and way cheaper.

I come from a relatively flat part of the world; so that's not really an option there. Gravity based batteries are nice where they can be done cheaply. But otherwise probably not ideal.



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