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Assessment of the round-trip efficiency of gravity energy storage

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1. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 2. Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China Received:2021-11-08 Revised:2021-11-16 Online:2022-05-05 Published:2022-05-07 Contact: Liye XIAO E-mail:[email protected];[email protected]

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