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That's actually literally what people do! Specifically, miners in China are often located right next to hydropower plants and buy energy from them when it is c
by stale2002 9y ago
That's actually literally what people do!
Specifically, miners in China are often located right next to hydropower plants and buy energy from them when it is cheap.
This is because you can't exactly say that shut off a river, because it rained too much yesterday, and is producing too much power.
- philwelch 9y agoBut you can store hydroelectric energy quite easily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
- stale2002 9y agoNot everyone has giant dams and space lying around to create literal lakes of water to store energy. Pumped water isn't a great solution as evidenced by the fact that it has been around for a while and people don't use it right now.