Revolutionary new Swiss ‘water battery’ will be one of Europe’s main renewable sources of energy

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  1. whenever I see ‘revolutionary’ in a Swiss reddit I instinctively check police twitter for demos

  2. They mention that it can help reduce the stress during heatwaves. I think the bigger concern is winter since A/C is not used much here in comparison to places like the US. Plenty of people like to keep their house or shops 22C+ in the winter though.

  3. I don’t think that other countries discovering something Switzerland has been doing for decades can be considered ‘revolutionary’.

  4. > source of energy

    Just of storage. Also still not enough to cover the raising demand.

    “Revolutionary” would be building modern AKWs.

  5. We had some of these for a long time now and even newer ones like Linth-Limmern with winter oriented alpine solar panels were constructed.

    More than a dozen retrofits/constructions were blocked (by regulatory bodies, by environmental groups complaining) or not yet started; I very much hope they’ll unblock and construct them all now.

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