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If you have driven thru the Columbia Gorge where the highest capacity hydroelectric dams are you’ll notice that these dams are much lower than the surrounding t
by waynecochran 8y ago
If you have driven thru the Columbia Gorge where the highest capacity hydroelectric dams are you’ll notice that these dams are much lower than the surrounding top of the gorge. I always wonder why not pump water to the top of the gorge?
- mmt 8y agoI would expect a signficant limiting factor to be the cost of dam construction (which is going to go up at least geometrically with height, assuming a V-shaped opening), not the height of the already-constructed-by-nature surrounding walls.