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I've wondered in the past if a giant flywheel the size of, say, a building and filled with a heavy material like concrete could store enough energy to make a difference in intra-day grid loads.


This is already a thing, but its installed into manageable sizes:

https://amberkinetics.com/installations/


I was amazed at flywheel UPS 20 years back. Why arent they more popular by now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage#Compar...




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