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Energy Vault's 148-meter gravity storage tower in China stores wind power using concrete blocks

China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete

Ellsworth Toohey

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The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall.

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