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by realusername 1022 days ago
> Not everywhere is suitable for pumped hydroelectric - relatively few places have dams or are dam suitable.

Sure but one of the prototypes was based in Switzerland... probably one of the best place on earth for dams.

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Yeah, thing about Switzerland is that a lot of global companies are based there and market products and services globally that aren't swiss clocks, chocolates, dams in the alps, lederhosen, etc.

This particular company has multiple gravity battery designs that it's shopping globally and building the first industrial scale installation in China (checks map) some distance from Switzerland.

So, again, not everywhere is suitable for pumped hydroelectric and (obviously one would have hoped) it's okay to develop products for places that have no dams while living in a place that has dams.

Do you have a point to make?