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On the scale of a large solar power plant, pumped water storage has superior durability and much easier maintainability than batteries. Besides, the water that'
by TheCoreh 7y ago
On the scale of a large solar power plant, pumped water storage has superior durability and much easier maintainability than batteries. Besides, the water that's pumped up hill can actually be "productive", e.g. suppling water to a city or to farms
- acidburnNSA 7y agoYes, but pumped storage requires a certain geography, takes up vast amounts of land, and may cause serious biogenic methane emissions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023102/