I didn’t downvote you, by the way.

I didn’t take you for the type to downvote me 😉

we don’t have enough infrastructure to cover the world’s baseload demand by releasing stored energy.

Here is where my disagreement lies. There is multitude of ways to store potential energy. I understand your point that only 16% of the world’s energy usage can be covered by natural sites that lend themselves to this. There are other ways to do this though, for one there is old coal mines that may be repurposed for this. There is also already existing systems like the sewers that can be outfitted to also allow stormdrains to double for this after repurposing them. There is many more way to store potential energy physically than just pumping water up a hill or between different levels of underground ravines…

You could use electrolysis, I am not sure how feasible that would be, however the assertion that this simply won’t work I do not buy. You could simply wind a large number of springs or other such maybe natural systems to create the same effect.

All of our energy comes either from the sun or from other stars that ceased. The amount of energy that hits the earth in the form of sunlight is massive and is imho the only presently available energy source we could use today on a large scale. This of course would require a massive engineering effort, but to outright dismiss this sounds like trolling to me.

Not sure if you are being willfully obtuse, I’m going to assume good faith.

A dam is a hydroelectric plant. you need a river a ravine and a lot more conditions to be met.

This is what I was talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

and technically speaking potential energy could be stored by lifting bolders and then harvest the released energy when they are allowed to come down. There are many ways to device systems like such. You could even go underground and use drilled wells with two reservoirs at different levels for this.

You are mistaken to dismiss this outright without at least looking at the wiki i linked.

You do not need batteries to store potential energy. You can pump water up a hill into a reservoir and then harvest the energy when you need it using hydroelectric energy.

Imagine not explaining your position instead only using derision.

El Barto if you are who you say you are, you will explain to us WHY the aforementioned is worthy of derision.

No we get Gozilla when we mine for underwater Tritium deposits using small nukes.

If you thought fuel costs were high boy oh boy are you in for a rude awakeining. You may want to change that to .22 or better yet bb-pellets. 😆 😂 🤣

😂 😜

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that’s a ton of weight