• Bgugi@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    A 600 kwh battery pack so… Rocks can roll down hill? Galaxy brain moment.

    • erin (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Genuinely, I cannot tell what your point is. In some alternate universe, are we just rolling the rocks downhill? Don’t you think we’d already be doing that? This seems like a great use case to replace diesel trucks with ones that recharge themselves using potential energy from ore. This absolutely is a galaxy brain moment, in that it’s a very smart idea.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      Probably a lot less safe (and harder to aim) if you don’t use the truck. Also unlikely they get all the way down unless you mine it in wheel shapes (increasing labor and also, luckily, danger).