• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 hours ago

    I mean, it’s not like concrete is scraping on the walls going up and down, it’s on a pulley system which would be efficient in terms of doing energy transfer. The article mentions round-trip efficiency above 80 percent, so I’m not sure pumping water could be much more efficient than that.