In northern Switzerland, a construction team is hard at work excavating a hole in the ground that will end up being over 88 ft (27 m) deep, and spanning the length of two soccer pitches. This pit will be home to Switzerland's first redox flow battery for storing clean energy – and it'll be the most…
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    “We will be able to inject or absorb up to 1.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in a few milliseconds,” FlexBase co-founder Marcel Aumer told Swiss public broadcaster RTS earlier this month.

    Does this make sense? How the hell do you transfer that much energy in milliseconds? Especially with a battery that requires the flow of liquid?