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Out of curiosity, why isn't "physical" storage used more? Like pumping a bunch of water up high, or spinning a big ass flywheel. I understand a flywheel might
by Klathmon 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why isn't "physical" storage used more?
Like pumping a bunch of water up high, or spinning a big ass flywheel.
I understand a flywheel might not be realistic at these scales, but water pumping seems like it could scale stupidly high.
- cesarb 9y agoPumped storage has the same problem as hydro, namely, the number of places suitable to placing the large reservoirs required by it is limited.
- throwaway7645 9y agoPumped storage is actually quite common where you have a lot of dams. The Bonneville Power Administration in the upper Westside of the US can essentially press a button and have quite a bit of power due to all the dams.