blog/data/2018-06-30-stone-power.txt

   1 Title: The worlds only stone power plant?
   2 Tags: english
   3 Date: 2018-06-30 10:35
   4
   5 <p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
   6 solar power, and wood power are well known.  Until a few days ago, I
   7 had never heard of stone power.  Then I learn about a quarry in a
   8 mountain in
   9 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
  10 Norway, where
  11 <a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
  12 Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
  13 into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour.  This downward movement
  14 in this shaft is used to produce electricity.  In short, it is using
  15 falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
  16 according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
  17 using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
  18 grid.  I find the concept truly amazing.  Is this the worlds only
  19 stone power plant?</p>
  20
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