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I thought hydroelectric was our storage miracle? You invest solar into pumping up the reservoir and drain it at night to spin turbines. The problem is that the
by zanny 10y ago
I thought hydroelectric was our storage miracle? You invest solar into pumping up the reservoir and drain it at night to spin turbines.
The problem is that the costs to build such power stores demands broad adoption of solar to justify the investment to build these hydroelectric systems. Their efficiencies are awful on the small scale. But people cannot adopt solar until stable power can be had. It will require state intervention and forward thinking to subsidize some of these projects to get broad solar buildup off the ground.