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"Minimum" meaning maximum. Taxpayers are obliged to pick up the difference. There are not, in fact, a limited number of pumped storage sites, and you do not, i
by ncmncm 4y ago
"Minimum" meaning maximum. Taxpayers are obliged to pick up the difference.
There are not, in fact, a limited number of pumped storage sites, and you do not, in fact, need any alpine lakes. Dikes are not commonly made of concrete.
And, there are numerous other cheap alternative storage media, for places without hills.
But first we need to build out enough renewable generating capacity to charge it from. It would be stupid to pour capital into storage that cannot be charged, particularly as prices are falling so fast that building will be radically cheaper when we come to need it.
- Manuel_D 4y ago> There are not, in fact, a limited number of pumped storage sites, and you do not, in fact, need any alpine lakes. Dikes are not commonly made of concrete. There are a limited number of economically viable pumped storage sites. You can find papers claiming an effectively limitless amount of hydroelectric storage. The problem is that most of these places either already use dams for most of their energy production and thus don't need to build any storage. Or, they are in extremely remote areas where construction is prohibitively expensive. There's huge hydroelectric potential in Tibet. But that's incredibly remote and prohibitively expensive to develop. > And, there are numerous other cheap alternative storage media, for places without hills. Such as?