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Yeah building mountains is not a realistic solution. Thermal storage is probably the best replacement where pumped hydro isn't feasible.
by zardo 5y ago
Yeah building mountains is not a realistic solution. Thermal storage is probably the best replacement where pumped hydro isn't feasible.
- ncmncm 5y agoInventing absurd versions of sound ideas just to have something to criticize is such a standard dishonest argument mode as to have been named. We all know the name, but its main feature is its dishonesty.
- zardo 5y agoWhat's the sound idea for build pumped hydro storage on flat land?
- ncmncm 5y agoThere is such a thing as a water tower, but that also is probably not practical utility-scale energy storage. The sound idea is water stored up an existing hill. On flat land you store your energy some other way: underground hydrogen or compressed air, or iron-air batteries, or liquified air, or any of various other choices that are more expensive and less efficient than pumped hydro. Or just run a wire over to someplace that does have hills.