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Energy Business
Len Rosen
Len Rosen
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Abandoned Mine Shafts Can Use Gravity to Turn Them Into Giant Batteries

A novel use of abandoned coal mines is to turn their vertical mineshafts into sources of kinetic energy to power Underground Gravity Energy Storage batteries.