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elevated weight as storage for generator? | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: elevated weight as storage for generator? (3.00 / 0) (#26)
by thunderhead (mail me from my homepage!) on Sat Aug 26th, 2006 at 05:00:11 AM MST
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If your house weighs 100 tons, and you lift it a metre into the air, you store 100,000 x 1 x 10 = 1,000,000 joules.

That's about 1/3 of a kWh.

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elevated weight as storage for generator? | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial)

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