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Pumping water up a mountain to store energy has been used around the world with much success, in my opinion it seems to be the most realistic way to store energ
by dangerface 7y ago
Pumping water up a mountain to store energy has been used around the world with much success, in my opinion it seems to be the most realistic way to store energy efficiently.
If you can remove the mountain you could scale this out to every one in the world and single handedly solve this problem.
There will be other problems to overcome but someone will figure it out why not you? I wish you all the best in this very important effort.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat's about 90%+ efficiency pumping it up, and generating it down (electrical conversion). So maybe 85% total storage efficiency. How's that compare to battery or other storage systems? Lithium is 98% by some sources.
- DoctorOetker 7y agothe UPHS seems like a durable system that could store and deliver many more cycles than a battery?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoYeah total cost of ownership would tend to even things out.