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This is interesting & seems a clever idea.

newatlas.com/energy/stensea-co

In an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres down to the depths of our oceans.
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Since 2011, the StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea) project has been exploring the possibilities of using the pressure in deep water to store energy in the short-to-medium term, in giant hollow concrete spheres sunken into seabeds, hundreds of feet below the surface.
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An empty sphere is essentially a fully charged storage unit. Opening its valve enables water to flow into the sphere, and this drives a turbine and a generator that feed electricity into the grid. To recharge the sphere, water is pumped out of it against the surrounding water pressure using energy from the grid.

A 10-ft test sphere being dropped down to the bottom of Lake Constance in Europe
New Atlas · How giant concrete balls on ocean floors could store renewable energyIn an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres down to the depths of our oceans.

I happen to be of that particular genre of Stupid that thinks if one is claiming to be serious about climate, environment, & biodiversity protection & enhancement, such that one claims to be forming policy for it, then precisely none of the entities historically & currently doing all the fucking over of those things, gets to sit at the decision table. Instead, they simply get told afterwards that the rules of the game have changed, & all their fucking over shall immediately cease, otherwise it's the Big House for them. I'd prolly also include some appendix formally noting all these entities are fuckheads who can just fuck off.

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@TonyStark most of the people who feel nostalgic for the great glory of US manufacturing also raised their children to believe that there too valuable, special and entitled to do such menial work. But they’re also deporting the people that will do that work. #CognitiveDissonance is the tagline of all MAGA pursuits. Cognitive dissonance is such a diplomatic way to say #Hypocrisy

The thing is, this theguardian.com/environment/20 has been obvious to me for a couple of decades, & i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. It's such a shocking indictment on humans to have wilfully fucked this all up so calamitously.

Burn, baby, burn ... & so we shall.

The Guardian · Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurerBy Damian Carrington