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> long-duration battery solutions This isn't practical everywhere, but on the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) there is a wind-and-battery solution in the
by biztos 5y ago
> long-duration battery solutions
This isn't practical everywhere, but on the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) there is a wind-and-battery solution in the form of a wind-pumped hydro-electric station. In effect there is a big pool of water acting as a battery and the wind turbine "charges" it.
When I ran across it on a trip to the island I was really impressed. Very original solution!
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-basic-configuration-of-the-Hydro-wind-power-plant_fig1_282575056 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-basic-configuration-...
- mikelward 5y agoI first heard about pumped hydro back in 2007. https://www.google.com/amp/s/grist.org/article/monbiot-we-can-provide-all-or-most-of-our-electricity-from-renewable-source/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/grist.org/article/monbiot-we-ca... https://books.google.com/books?id=vsPYv7jm-34C https://books.google.com/books?id=vsPYv7jm-34C
- matkoniecz 5y agohttps://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Zar_zbiornik.jpg https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Zar_zbiornik.jpg https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrownia_Por%C4%85bka-%C5%BBar https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrownia_Por%C4%85bka-%C5%B... - another one from Poland, likely one of the largest batteries in the world (build in 1979 - 2 000 000 tons of pumped water, 440m height difference, typical working duration is 4 hours and 5.5 hours for pumping water back) https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Dlouhe_strane_horni_nadrz.jpg https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Dlouhe_strane_horni_nadrz... and another one General concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... If it would be actually climate emergency then we would be building in mountains all where reasonable. No matter the damage to some rare species, panorama and tourism.
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