Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys
Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine
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Show Notes
Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a company that stores renewable energy by hoisting large objects in massive “gravity batteries.”
Also on this week’s show, Erick Lundgren, a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, talks about how water from wells dug by wild horses and feral donkeys provides a buffer to all different kinds of animals and plants during the driest times in the Sonora and Mojave deserts.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
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[Image: Tracy Hall/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Authors: Cathleen O’Grady; Sarah Crespi
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