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Long-term storage of energy is a difficult technical problem that limits the usability of renewable sources of energy to replace traditional fossil fuel sources

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Can we use the stored gravitational potential energy of a building to produce power?

Yes, you can convert the potential energy of the skyscraper into useful work. But, to extract useful work from the potential energy, must reduce the potential energy, that is: you must reduce the heig …
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