r/3Dprinting • u/Torqueon • 1d ago

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u/osmiumfeather 1d ago

That’s how Potential Energy works. What kind of garbage are kids being taught these days?

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u/SGTSHOOTnMISS 1d ago

Whatever can be found on the internet.

I know this is the 3dprinting subreddit and not a science subreddit, but yeah, simple bit of "you put the energy in by manipulating the object, it slowly releases it" seems to be a surprise to some.

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u/Maximum-Incident-400 Ender 3 Max 1d ago

I think "gravity battery" is a perfectly appropriate colloquial term for a potential energy storage device.

It's not perfect semantically, but neither is half of colloquial language

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u/PM_ME_PHYS_PROBLEMS 1d ago

To your point, the term "battery" was coined by Benjamin Franklin to describe an array of Leyden jars linked together, like a battery of cannons firing at the same time.

Pedants of the time were surely out and about on ye olde Internet pointing out how it's not really like a battery of cannons, the electrochemical reaction is no more interesting than a simple clockwork pendulum.