{"id":27770,"date":"2025-11-06T04:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27770"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:52:41","slug":"gravity-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gravity-energy-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gravity Energy Storage:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new technology that <strong>stores energy using gravity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How does it work?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It involves lifting a heavy mass during <strong>excess energy generation<\/strong> and releasing it to produce electricity when demand rises or solar energy is unavailable.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The types of weights used are often water, concrete blocks or compressed earth blocks.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike pumped-hydro energy storage, gravity energy storage offers more flexibility in site selection.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A typical setup involves a heavy piston within a <strong>fluid-filled cylindrical container.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/solar-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">solar energy<\/a> production exceeds demand, surplus electricity lifts the piston, converting the surplus electrical energy into stored energy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>When demand surpasses supply, the piston descends, driving water through a turbine to generate electricity supply to meet demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It can <strong>last for decades with minimal maintenance<\/strong>, unlike batteries that degrade over time.<\/li>\n<li>It avoids <strong>harmful chemical reactions,<\/strong> reducing environmental impact and disposal issues, an important consideration in the move towards a greener planet.<\/li>\n<li>It can also be <strong>more cost-effective for large-scale applications<\/strong>, with lower level costs of energy and storage.<\/li>\n<li>It is particularly advantageous in areas with space constraints or environmental concerns that restrict the deployment of other storage systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Renewable energy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being replenished. Renewable energy sources are plentiful and all around us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/energy\/how-gravity-can-be-harnessed-to-store-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How gravity can be harnessed to store renewable energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity Energy Storage is a new technology that stores energy using gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}