Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

A new urban gravity storage system integrated into high-rise buildings is proving to be a commercially and technically viable ...

Energy innovators around the world plan to harvest more power from abandoned coal mines, but not by digging up dirty deposits. Instead, this concept utilizes gravity and renewable energy to transform ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Towering (some might say, decadent) superstructures continue to ...

Energy Vault's EVu concept is a superstructure tower design, which improves unit economics and enables GESS integration into tall building. SOM will work on systems for actual projects with customer ...

Swiss startup Energy Vault came out of stealth mode in 2018, and has been on an upward trajectory since then. The company created a system to store electricity by elevating concrete blocks, and ...

Often associated with refreshing a sense of being renewed and a peaceful calmness, raindrops may soon become tiny engines of ...

The 100MW energy storage system will be owned and operated by Energy Vault, and is key to increasing the local use of renewable energy in Sardinia while accelerating the formation of the Renewable ...

Scientists could be wrong about dark energy. But they’re right about gravity, a new study suggests. Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that causes the expansion of the cosmos to accelerate, is ...

Energy-momentum distribution remains a fundamental yet challenging aspect of theoretical physics. In general relativity, the localisation of gravitational energy is obscured by the equivalence ...