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You'd think that in an article specifically about energy storage, in the introductory paragraph, they'd get the units right.

> The Pyhäsalmi Mine, roughly 450 kilometres north of Helsinki, is Europe’s deepest zinc and copper mine and holds the potential to store up to 2 MW of energy within its 1,400-metre-deep shafts.




It's frustrating, every article just repeats "2MW capacity." Gravitricity hasn't announced this project themselves yet, hopefully when they do they give the actual storage capacity.

But I think 2MWh might be correct - in press elsewhere Gravitricity says 500t over 800m produces 1MWh. This is a deeper depth but not that much, and this is very much an experimental project so I think they might be sticking to 500-750t mass. They anticipate larger systems using multiple masses rather than a single larger one. Still, they've also announced a 4MWh project in the UK, so it's not like they see 2MWh as a limit.


It’s a sad reality now, 1Mwh is sloppily called “1MW” when it’s about energy, but “1MW” when it’s about power. It’s just like the ship sailed on 1 kilocalorie.m being called “one calorie” I think we can give up on this one as well.


It all gets confusing when integrating power over a strange quantity of time. I wish we had some kind of rational unit to quantify energy


Joules? Maybe you're facetious but it's hard to tell over the internet.


No. Never.

kcal and cal atleast is the same unit.




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