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As someone said in a different thread: Fossil fuel will compete with storage, not with primary energy production. Wouldn't it make sense to move money and rese
by TomK32 7y ago
As someone said in a different thread: Fossil fuel will compete with storage, not with primary energy production. Wouldn't it make sense to move money and research into finding better energy storage?
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity does need special places to be most effective, but we already have a lot of one-way dams littering our rivers, of which some might be upgraded. Deep mines that can be used for the lower reservoir, maybe something to be give depleted coal mines a new purpose?
Energy production will change a lot over the next years, there's no way stopping it.
- tsmascarenas 7y agoThere is a YC startup looking at converting CO2 and H2O into "Fossil Fuel" called Prometheus (namesake of the monitoring tool I guess!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240.
- pfdietz 7y ago> but we already have a lot of one-way dams littering our rivers, of which some might be upgraded It would be better to locate pumped hydro off rivers. Dams are terrible for the ecology of rivers.