And put. Our faraway solar system neighbor was a planet and then it wasnt what happened. But 1st lets take a look at our planets sun wind and water are almost inexhaustible sources of energy here on earth and we have the technology to tap into them were moving away from fossil fuels to Renewable Energies that much is clear but whats unclear is how to reliably store that energy. Its a problem that urgently needs solving as more and more of our electricity in the future will come from renewable sources. A swiss engineer has come up with an interesting concept. Petrecki has a vision he wants to build a gravity assisted battery to compensate for the fluctuating nature of solar and wind energy if it works itll be able to store millions of times more energy than a conventional household battery. Vision is a system for storing large amounts of energy so we can increase the sheriff energy is in the grid. Or right now its about 30 to 35 percent thats the limit because the sun doesnt shine const
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Lee County Community Orchestra’s 36th season performing free concerts for the public concludes this weekend with “Horizons: Scenes of Old & New” on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at