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Submission + - Floating train at 2000 km/h set to store 10% of Dutch electricity (www.ecn.nl)

An anonymous reader writes: The construction of a huge underground maglev-style floating railway will make it possible to store 10% of the Netherlands' daily energy needs in the form of kinetic energy. This Energy Train can compensate for peaks and troughs in the supply and demand of wind and solar energy at one tenth of the usual costs.

The concept has been devised and developed by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and is set to revolutionise the world of energy storage.

The floating railway will cover a circular track with a radius of 2.5 km. In periods when too much wind or solar energy is generated, the surplus electricity is used to set in motion a pure-mass floating maglev train within a vacuum tunnel. It can reach a speed of 2,000 kilometres per hour. In periods when insufficient renewable energy is generated, this kinetic energy can be re-converted into electricity and fed into the grid

Comment Re:Get cracking (Score 1) 371

I whole-heartedly agree with what you say, but please keep in mind that no matter what the strategy, in the end, the DRM'ed content has to be accessible, and therefore can be grabbed and stripped of the DRM one way or another.
Frankly, if the content is video, there is no "equivalent to showing an image of text". How would you go about it, hide the video and instead publish an audio file that describes the movie? ;).

DRM is shit, and if the new DRM in firefox can't be disabled at runtime, then i'll disable it at compile time, and if it can't be disabled at compile-time, i'll patch it out. It's just probably not the end of freedom on the internet, for "us geeks" anyway. Maybe it is for average users, but as you correctly point out yourself, those tend to not care. So why care about them?

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