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Robert Piconi, Energy Vault

Inevitable

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How to Optimize the Build and Release of These Towers According to Energy Supply and Demand

Cody: The form factor that he shows there basically looks like cranes sitting in the middle of a bunch of towers of Jenga blocks. And then when you need to leverage that energy, the crane grabs a block and drops it down to the bottom; which helps presumably creates friction that generates electricity. That was our EV1 tower before we went to the more modular building. But essentially it was like building and deconstructing a building every day, right? So we would take that excess energy, stack these blocks in a very specific way. It's pretty amazing how that came together.

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