Enter battery skyscrapers.
At the end of May, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the architecture and engineering firm behind some of the world’s tallest buildings, announced a partnership with the energy storage company Energy Vault to develop new gravity energy storage solutions.
That includes a design for a skyscraper that would use a motor powered by electricity from the grid to elevate giant blocks when energy demand is low.
These blocks would store the electricity as “potential” energy.
When there is demand, the blocks would be lowered, releasing the energy, which would be converted into electricity. (CNN)
It sounds like the conversion to clean energy won’t be easy, but possible!
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