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I was lumping dam infrastructure into the "other gravity batteries" which does cause ecological nightmare situations. if they only meant the fringe gravity batteries like block elevators and the like then it's not as bad a thing but you still require a large amount of fresh water which is an issue in a lot of places too.


Pumped storage, even in a desert, consumes at least an order of magnitude less water than a nuclear power plant with the same energy output.




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