Or outside of a vacuum…

https://youtu.be/yFE6qQ3ySXE

😘

Riiiiiight…

If it is so promising, why haven’t they started more projects since 2023? 😃

I’m in the energy business and work with Chinese partenaires. This project was an investigation. The construction industry has been in overdrive for the last 30y.

When it Will slow down, all these machines, people, etc will need something to do. This was the whole purpose.

Since you start insulting me, I won’t exchange further 😘

That’s a pilot project…

And the construction industry is already very established… Very little cost reduction potential.

But you’ll see 😃

PS: comparing such a technology to a nuclear plant shows how little you understand that technology and business.

Right… Construction is such a new industry. A lot of cost reduction potential. Plus, concrete is so clean 🤣

They have tried at least for the last 7 years. The price of batteries has plummeted since:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/21/energy-vault-proposes-an-energy-storage-system-using-concrete-blocks/

Let me know, when they go in production 😃

Already debunked 1000 times. Much more complex and expensive.

For all these examples, they are either pretty much on par with other countries (or slightly ahead), using dumping to kill the competition (PV) or focusing their resources on strategic tech -batteries- (like any authorian regime ever did).

I’m not saying is not saying they are not innovative or a technologic power.

But saying they have brought new tech (that Europeans or Americans had discarded) is not really correct.

Such as?

They have managed to take over many industries mostly though their focused resources allocation, extremely large internal market and some dumping.

But what technology have they developed, that others failed?

That’s partially a cognitive biais. You mostly remember the ones that survived and forget about the plethora that didn’t.

For instance: China, like many countries, also has lots of h2 trials that failed.

Time will tell. But saying that costs will be equivalent to that of conventional wind turbine is putting a lot of pressure on"will", which is doing all the heavy lifting…

I know. Many are trying to do similar things. But this concept will take a very long time until it works well enough.

Reading the article?!? The Internet has no time for that, sir! /s 🤣

Joke aside, the article says:

“Once these systems are built in large numbers, the power they produce could be as cheap as from normal wind turbines.”

My answer is: don’t hold your breath. I’m in that industry and it will take a veeeeeery long time until the costs are on par with current systems.

Spoiler: it will most likely never make a dent to the current wind industry.

Some people don’t understand why I’m not coming back to the USA… Well…

Interesting that assassination is not on the list.

Is this leopardatemyface? /s

Do they also Roll on the ground as soon as you touch them and Fake injuries?

Because if not, I may be more interested on watching that…

There are still huge disparities and not every Chinese citizen is a potential customer.

They still need foreign markets…

Europe has roughly half the population, but pretty much a similar consumer market for instance.

Lol. They still need to sell their products to someone.

But go to China and you’ll see that they have the lead on cars and numerical technologies. They bring to market and adopt faster than anyone else.

Plus, concrete is super dirty to produce and actually not so dense.